{"id":5602,"date":"2014-02-27T05:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2014-02-27T05:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:14:40","slug":"daily-post-eastward-canadian-national-ethanol-extra-crosses-the-fox-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-eastward-canadian-national-ethanol-extra-crosses-the-fox-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Post: Eastward Canadian National Ethanol Extra Crosses the Fox River"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Color Slide Exposed on November 7, 2013.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Canadian National unit ethanol symbol U70491-06 crosses the former Illinois Central Fox River Bridge at South Elgin on November 7, 2013. Exposed on Provia 100F with a Leica M4 and 35mm Summicron lens. Exposure calculated with a Minolta IV handheld light meter. Slide scanned with an Epson V600 scanner. This is a low-res conversion from the large Tiff scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During my visit with Chris Guss in November we explored Chicago area railroads. This was both a means of making photos while proving needed opportunity to discuss the text for book on Chicago\u2019s railroads that we were authoring (along with Mike Blaszak and John Gruber).<\/p>\n

On the morning of November 7th<\/sup>, we drove to South Elgin to intercept an eastward Canadian National ethanol train working the old Illinois Central Iowa Division. Back in the mid-1990s, I knew this route as the Chicago Central & Pacific.<\/p>\n

As it turned out the CC&P was just a short-lived regional, perhaps now almost forgotten, swept up in the wave of mergers and acquisitions that characterized the railroad dynamic of the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Chris favored this location off a bicycle trail below a massive highway bridge. On the opposite side of the river are the tracks of the Fox River Trolley Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although we missed an earlier eastward freight, we arrived in ample time to set up for this train. I exposed several photos using my Canon EOS 7D, and made this color slide using my dad\u2019s Leica M4 that I\u2019d borrowed for the trip.<\/p>\n

Making a slide with this Leica allowed me to maintain interesting continuity, since my father made many slides around Chicago with his Leica cameras in the early 1960s. (Incidentally, some of him images will appear in the book, to be published by Voyageur Press<\/a> later this year).<\/p>\n

These days while I largely work with my digital cameras, I still expose a fair bit of film (usually color slides, but sometimes black & white). I have plenty of old film cameras to choose from, and I often carry an EOS 3 loaded with Provia 100F.<\/p>\n

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