{"id":6738,"date":"2014-05-20T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:07:55","slug":"conrail-at-iona-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-at-iona-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail at Iona Island."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The Blue Haze of a Summer Morning.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/05\/20\/conrail-at-iona-island\/conrail_sd60i_tvla_mp41_iona_island_june27_1997brian_solomon_236359\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6735\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-at-iona-island\/conrail_sd60i_tvla_mp41_iona_island_june27_1997brian_solomon_236359\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?fit=800%2C543\" data-orig-size=\"800,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?fit=709%2C481\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?fit=474%2C322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?resize=474%2C322\" alt=\"Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359\" width=\"474\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?resize=709%2C481 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?resize=441%2C300 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Gardner and I were enjoying a trip along the Hudson River on June 27, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>This photo really says \u20181990s\u2019 to me. A clean Conrail SD60I leads intermodal freight TVLA (New Jersey to Los Angeles) with a long line of piggyback trailers. I exposed it on Fujichrome slide film using my Nikon N90S with 80-200 zoom lens.<\/p>\n<p>This lens\/film combination had a color balance and contrast that I associate with my mid-1990s photography. On the down side, used of a telephoto zoom-lens and Fuji film resulted in bright headlights and ditch-lights appearing as ill-defined blobs.<\/p>\n<p>I embraced the convenience and versatility of the N90S and zoom lens with 100 speed filem, which was easier and faster than my old prime lenses with Kodachrome, but I sacrificed quality.<\/p>\n<p>At that stage I was still carry my Nikon F3T with Kodachrome. But following a string of processing disasters that summer, I largely phased out Kodachrome in favor of Fuji. Sometimes there\u2019s no perfect solution, and some sort compromise is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the evolution of the railroad network, see my book:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qbookshop.com\/products\/211636\/9780760344880\/North-American-Railroad-Family-Trees.html\" target=\"_blank\">North American Railroad Family Trees<\/a>\u00a0published by\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voyageurpress.com\/categories\/10\/History.html\" target=\"_blank\">Voyageur Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; color: inherit; text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0posts new material\u00a0every\u00a0morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; 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This photo really says \u20181990s\u2019 to me. A clean Conrail SD60I leads intermodal freight TVLA (New Jersey to Los Angeles) with a long line of piggyback trailers. I exposed it on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-at-iona-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conrail at Iona Island.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2174,53,7535,34,2173],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conrail_SD60I_TVLA_mp41_Iona_Island_June27_1997\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236359.jpg?fit=800%2C543","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1KG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}