{"id":6724,"date":"2014-05-18T03:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T07:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2014-05-15T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:54:03","slug":"hey-now-look-at-this-something-old-something-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/hey-now-look-at-this-something-old-something-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey now, Look at This: Something Old, Something Different."},"content":{"rendered":"

Guilford SD26 at Silver Springs, May 2, 1987.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I thought I try something different; so I reached into a Logan slide storage box on the shelf and fished out a slide. This is what I found!<\/p>\n

Step back 27 years . . . Doug Eisele and I had started the morning on the old Erie Railroad near Attica, New York. When Conrail\u2019s heavy BUOI (Buffalo to Oak Island) freight came growling upgrade we followed it on side roads to Silver Springs. Here it took the siding for a westbound.<\/p>\n

The signals read \u2018yellow-over-red-over-red\u2019\u2014approach. What came along was Delaware & Hudson\u2019s East Binghamton to Buffalo freight with a freshly painted former Santa Fe SD26 trailing.<\/p>\n

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It was precisely 11:18 am on May 2, 1987 at Silver Springs, New York. Exposed with a Canon A1 with 50mm lens on Professional Kodachrome 25 slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the time I wasn\u2019t especially impressed by the D&H train. It was rolling hard out of the sun on tangent track. But, I rarely let an opportunity get away, so I made this going away view to show the signals and the meet.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, I find this photo fascinating. The signals that interested me then, are all the more interesting today; the SD26 and leading GE U23Bs are all long gone; and Conrail\u2019s former Erie operations faded into Norfolk Southern fifteen years ago. So, it\u2019s pretty neat to look back and see what has changed!<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow: Ghost of the Northern Pacific!<\/p>\n

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