{"id":7521,"date":"2014-07-23T02:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T06:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T14:39:40","slug":"on-the-old-nickel-plate-road-april-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-the-old-nickel-plate-road-april-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Old Nickel Plate Road, April 1988."},"content":{"rendered":"

New General Electric DASH-8s Nose to Nose.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In April 1988, I was exploring locations along Conrail\u2019s former New York Central \u2018Water Level Route\u2019 west of Dunkirk, New York. Parallel to this line was the old Nickel Plate Road.<\/p>\n

Where the former New York Central Line was a highly engineered grade-level route \u00a0and crossed the terrain on high earthen fills, Nickel Plate was built to a lighter standard and used plate girder viaducts over the valleys of rivers and streams.<\/p>\n

Lighter engineering often results in more interesting photographs.<\/p>\n

\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed on black & white negative film using a Rolleiflex Model T with f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens. By using a 645 \u2018superslide\u2019 insert, I obtained a rectangular negative size instead of the more common square associated with the Rollei T. This gave me a more conventional photographic aspect. In retrospect, I\u2019ve found that I prefer Rollei photos made in the square format.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I caught this Norfolk Southern freight working toward Buffalo over a tower-supported plate-girder trestle near Westfield, New York.<\/p>\n

At the time, Norfolk Southern had recently purchased a fleet of General Electric C39-8s and tended to work these long hood first. I found this arrangement fascinating and so I made a variety of images of the big GE diesels working \u2018hammer head\u2019 style.<\/p>\n

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