{"id":715,"date":"2012-12-24T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=715"},"modified":"2012-12-25T04:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T04:30:28","slug":"cuernavaca-mexico-december-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cuernavaca-mexico-december-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuernavaca, Mexico, December 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Logo of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On Christmas Day 1979, I flew from New York\u2019s Kennedy Airport to Mexico City on an Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011 Tristar. At Mexico City airport I met my uncle and we spent a week wandering around. Among our adventures was a visit to Cuernavaca where I met an elderly survivor of San Francisco\u2019s 1906 earthquake and fire. My uncle and I rode National Railways of Mexico local train from Cuernavaca to Iguala behind an imported General Motors G16 diesel-electric. The fare was 8 pesos each\u2014not much money, even in 1979! Throughout these wanderings I made good use of my Leica IIIA and Summitar lens. I exposed black & white and color slide film with mixed results. Despite some dodgy exposures (my light meter wasn\u2019t the greatest) and considering I was only 13 at the time, I managed to take some memorable images.<\/p>\n

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An early morning view of National Railways of Mexico\u2019s Cuernavaca station where I recall chickens running around on the tracks\u2014just like in Conrail\u2019s Palmer Yard!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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