{"id":5159,"date":"2014-01-13T05:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2014-09-15T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:02:29","slug":"daily-post-daylight-beauty-at-hooker-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-daylight-beauty-at-hooker-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Daylight Beauty at Hooker Creek."},"content":{"rendered":"

On Assignment with Southern Pacific.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mount Shasta looms more than 90 miles to north, as Southern Pacific\u2019s most famous locomotives races railroad west through along Hooker Creek (near Cottonwood, California).<\/p>\n

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Southern Pacific\u2019s Lima-built semi-streamlined 4-8-4 number 4449 works railroad west south of Cottonwood, California on the evening of September 2, 1991. Exposed on Kodachrome 25 using a Nikon F3T with 300mm Nikkor telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I exposed this image on September 2, 1991. Southern Pacific had organized the historic streamlined engine to make a public appearances in the Sacramento River Canyon as a goodwill gesture following a serious derailment at the Cantera Loop which spilled toxins into the river above Dunsmuir. The railroad had hired me for two days to make photographs of the PR event.<\/p>\n

Brian Jennison provided transport, and the two of us spent a long weekend making numerous images of SP 4449 with the matching\u00a0Daylight <\/i>train. I borrowed Brian\u2019s 300mm Nikkor telephoto for this dramatic image. SP ran one of my photos in their company magazine, Southern Pacific Bulletin.<\/i><\/p>\n

While SP\u2019s public runs ran from Redding to Dunsmuir and beyond to Black Butte, after the train returned to Dunsmuir, it would run light to the wye at Tehama for turning. It was on this portion of the journey(s) that I made some of the most dramatic photos because they occurred in the evening when the lighting was most pleasing.<\/p>\n

I’d chosen this angle to feature Mt. Shasta. Unfortunately, owing to the time of year, the famous volcanic cone wasn’t covered with snow in its higher regions.<\/p>\n

This photo has appeared in books, and I\u2019ve used many of the images from the trip in publications. SP 4449 remains one of my favorite locomotives.<\/p>\n

See: Classic Locomotives<\/a> my recent book by Voyageur Press <\/a>for more great steam locomotive photos.<\/p>\n

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