{"id":8825,"date":"2014-11-08T02:43:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T07:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2014-11-01T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:57:15","slug":"spirit-of-the-mississippi-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/spirit-of-the-mississippi-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of the Mississippi\u2014Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savanna, Illinois.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On April 2, 1995, I spent the afternoon with Tom and Mike Danneman perched atop a bluff photographing trains along the Mississippi River. With three SD40-2s, you just know that this westbound was making a great sound along the river! Exposed on Kodachrome 25 with a Nikon F3T.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A favorite location along the river was the Mississippi Palisades Park<\/a> a few miles north of Savanna. Back in the mid-1990s, Mike and Tom Danneman and I would park at the public lot near river level and follow a designated hiking trail to one of several overlooks.<\/p>\n

There standing on a plateau a top a river bluff made from millions of years of sediment, we command grand views of the river.<\/p>\n

At the time, Burlington Northern would run a parade of trains in the afternoon and we\u2019d photograph these roaring up and down the old Chicago, Burlington & Quincy line. This was a versatile location, good for photos at all times of the day. I don\u2019t know that we ever tired of it.<\/p>\n

At other times, we\u2019d try angles from river level as well.<\/p>\n

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I often looked for angles that put the railroad in context with the river. Burlington Northern’s well-polished rails glint in the evening sun on April 2, 1995.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sunset<\/a>
Sunset over the Mississippi on April 21, 1996. Rock climbers make for a curious silhouette. Exposed on Fujichrome Provia 100 with a Nikkormatt FTN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Savanna, Illinois. A favorite location along the river was the Mississippi Palisades Park a few miles north of Savanna. Back in the mid-1990s, Mike and Tom Danneman and I would park at the public lot near river level and follow a designated hiking trail to one of several overlooks. There standing on a plateau a … Continue reading Spirit of the Mississippi\u2014Part 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4537,134,7535,484,533,529,2408],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BN_along_Mississippi_Apr2_1995\u00a9Brian-Solomon-899116.jpg?fit=750%2C505","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}