{"id":6698,"date":"2014-06-15T03:54:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T07:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:01:26","slug":"union-pacific-coal-train-ten-years-to-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/union-pacific-coal-train-ten-years-to-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific Coal Train\u2014Ten Years to the Day."},"content":{"rendered":"

Silhouette at Sunset.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

West of Rochelle, Illinois, June 15, 2004: the sky was aflame with the evening glow. As the setting sun illuminated prairie-dust and low cloud that had blown in from the west.<\/p>\n

I was parked near the Global III intermodal yard south of Union Pacific\u2019s former Chicago & North Western mainline. This is a busy stretch of railroad.<\/p>\n

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A Union Pacific coal train works east near Rochelle, Illinois. Exposed with a Nikon F3 on Fujichrome slide film. Notice the ditch-lights; I\u2019ve given just enough of an angle so there\u2019s the faint twinkle at the front of the locomotive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Central Illinois is flat open country which is prefect for making sunset silhouettes: using the big sky as back drop for a train.<\/p>\n

Here I\u2019ve taken nearly a broadside position, exposed for the sky while keeping the train in the lower quarter of the frame.<\/p>\n

When I worked at Pacific RailNews in the mid-1990s, we favored silhouetted views with lots of sky to use for opening spreads. It was the style to lay headlines and text in the sky.<\/p>\n

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