{"id":6749,"date":"2014-05-21T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:11:18","slug":"conrail-at-gang-mills-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-at-gang-mills-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail at Gang Mills, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 9, 1987.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d been out along the former Erie Railroad since before dawn that day. The tracks had been alive with freight. By early afternoon, I was down at Gang Mills Yard, near Corning, which served as a local hub for freight.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Professional Kodachrome 25, with my college roommate\u2019s Canon A1 with 50mm lens. The film was processed by Kodak in Rochester, New York with in 48 hours of exposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back then General Electric B23-7s were a common locomotive. I\u2019d grown up with these diesels working locals and road freights on the Boston & Albany route. I always like their classic GE style and their great sound. My B&A engineer friends despised them because of their \u2018slow loading,\u2019 \u2018low cab doors,\u2019 and other perceived inadequacies.<\/p>\n

I made this photo at the engine terminal. I liked all the Conrail signage behind the locomotive. There\u2019s nothing especially unusual about this scene, it was as ordinary as it got for the time, but today this really says, \u201cConrail\u201d as I remember it.<\/p>\n

Conrail ended independent operations at the end of May 1999, fifteen years ago. Between 1976 and 1999, I exposed thousands of views of Conrail. In 2004, Tim Doherty & I authored an illustrated book<\/a> on Conrail<\/a> for MBI.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow: Conrail on smoggy morning! (Yous got a problem wit dat?)<\/p>\n

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