{"id":5820,"date":"2014-03-20T03:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2014-03-05T05:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:01:02","slug":"canadian-national-at-subway-road-tracking-the-light-daily-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/canadian-national-at-subway-road-tracking-the-light-daily-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian National at Subway Road\u2014Tracking the Light Daily Post."},"content":{"rendered":"

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in June 2004.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten years earlier in my Pacific RailNews days, I\u2019d often photographed along the Wisconsin Central. By 2004, the railroad had been absorbed by CN, yet quite a few of WC\u2019s old SD45s were still on the move.<\/p>\n

It might surprise some regular readers, but photography wasn\u2019t the prime reason for my visit. Rather, I was trying to make high-end audio recordings of the old SD45s working in multiple. As I\u2019ve explained in other publications; the SD45\u2019s 20-cylinder 645E3 produces a distinctive low-frequency sound when working in the mid- throttle positions. I wanted to preserve these sounds that had been so familiar to my earlier railroad experience.<\/p>\n

So what does that have to do with this CN DASH 9?<\/p>\n

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A Canadian National DASH9-44CW hits the Subway Road crossing in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on a June 2004 afternoon. Exposed with a Nikon F3T fitted with a 24mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simple opportunity; that is all.\u00a0I\u2019ve never been one to squander a chance to make a photograph.<\/p>\n

This CN General Electric was leading a southward freight toward the yards at North Fond du Lac, and I set up this image at Subway Road a little ways north of the yard.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, a thermal cloud covered the sun moments before the locomotive reached the optimum position. This would have been a greater problem if I\u2019d been using Kodachrome. As it happened, I was exposing Fujichrome.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve made a few minor post-processing adjustments to the slide scan designed to improve the contrast and color balance.<\/p>\n

What about the audio recordings? I made most of those late at night when there was minimal interference from random noise, but that\u2019s really the topic for another time.<\/p>\n

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