{"id":8429,"date":"2014-10-03T02:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2014-09-25T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:06:07","slug":"spvs-on-the-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/spvs-on-the-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"SPV\u2019s on the Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bannerman Castle, June 16, 1986.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It was a hot and humid day. TSH and I were on a New York Central Hudson Division kick. I was working with my father\u2019s Rolleiflex Model T loaded with Verichrome Pan black & white negative film to emulate the style images exposed here decades earlier.<\/p>\n

Where in the 1940s, New York Central photographer Ed Novak had made photos of 4-6-4 Hudson and 4-8-4 Niagara type steam locomotives, and in the early 1960s my father had captured New York Central\u2019s E-units with stainless steel streamlined cars, on this day, we had to settle for more modern trains.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always made it a point to make the most of whatever comes along. We were hoping to make photos of Metro-North\u2019s FL9s, which were then the most interesting locomotives on the line, so far as I was concerned.<\/p>\n

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Metro-North SPV2000s roll along the Hudson River near the iconic Bannerman Castle. I was emulating an older style of photography by using a vintage 120-size Rolleiflex with Verichrome Pan black & white negative film. Would this photo be better as a digital color image?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When this three-unit set of Budd-SPV2000s rolled by on a shuttle from Poughkeepsie, I framed up the classic view and released the shutter. No regrets now. I Processed the film in D76 using stainless steel tanks. 25 years later I scanned the negatives.<\/p>\n

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Cropped and enlarged to show detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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