{"id":8260,"date":"2014-09-26T02:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T06:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2014-09-18T04:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T08:22:35","slug":"daily-post-southern-pacific-4449-at-redding-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-southern-pacific-4449-at-redding-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Post: Southern Pacific 4449 at Redding, California."},"content":{"rendered":"

On Assignment with Southern Pacific, Part 2<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

August 31, 1991. I\u2019ll put this in the \u2018forgotten images\u2019 category! I remember the trip, I remember the day, but until I scanned it, I\u2019d completely<\/em> forgotten that I\u2019d made this photo on black & white film.<\/p>\n

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SP Daylight 4449 crosses the curved tower-supported plate girder viaduct at Redding, California on August 31, 1991. Exposed using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I\u2019ve describe in my previous post, Daylight Beauty at Hooker Creek<\/a>.\u00a0Southern Pacific had organized the streamlined engine to make a public appearances in the Sacramento River Canyon as a goodwill gesture following a serious derailment at the Cantara Loop (which spilled toxins into the river above Dunsmuir), and the railroad had hired me for two days to make photographs of the PR event. Brian Jennison provided transport, and the two of us spent a long weekend making numerous images of SP 4449 with Daylight <\/em>train.<\/p>\n

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I exposed this image on the first day of excursions using my Leica M2 with 50mm lens. I\u2019ve published many of the color slides I exposed from the same trip, including views I made on Kodachrome with my Nikon F3T at this bridge.<\/p>\n

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Some\u00a0can be found in my book The American Steam Locomotive <\/em><\/a>published by MBI in 1998, Steam Power<\/em><\/a> published by Voyageur Press in 2009. Also, Audio Visual Designs used my photo of SP 4449 at Redding on a picture postcard back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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Finding this picture was a pleasant surprise. Compared with earlier years, I have relatively few black & white images from the 1990s in California, although I went through a phase where I\u2019d use the Leica loaded B&W during the \u2018high light\u2019 when Kodachrome yielded substandard results.<\/p>\n

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In this case, I made the most of the situation by using two cameras and different types of film, I obtained a variety of photos from location. Also, the locomotive repeated the exercise the following day. By then, I\u2019d re-loaded the Leica with Kodachrome 25.<\/p>\n

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Tight crop on the locomotive from the same b&w negative. SP Daylight 4449
crosses the curved tower-supported plate girder viaduct at Redding, California on August 31, 1991. Exposed using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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