{"id":6731,"date":"2014-05-19T02:55:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T06:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:06:55","slug":"ghost-of-the-northern-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ghost-of-the-northern-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost of the Northern Pacific."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinole, California, August 1992.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Exposed with a Nikon F3T on Kodachrome 25 slide film. I was toying with my 35mm perspective control lens to keep the horizon in view, but my angle of view was a bit too extreme for the shift feature, which resulted in this slightly strange perspective.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s something neat; I was photographing a westward Southern Pacific freight running along the shore of San Pablo Bay at Pinole, when I spotted this old Northern Pacific box car in consist.<\/p>\n

By 1992, Northern Pacific had been gone for 22 years, which seemed like a lifetime to me! Here was this vision of a railroad long gone, but still moving freight.<\/p>\n

Of course, today its not still uncommon to see Burlington Northern cars in old paint, and BN has been gone 19 years. Funny how that works.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the evolution of the railroad network, see my book: North American Railroad Family Trees<\/a> published by Voyageur Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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