{"id":9546,"date":"2015-01-02T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2015-01-04T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T02:05:07","slug":"35-years-for-the-aem-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/35-years-for-the-aem-7\/","title":{"rendered":"35 Years for the AEM-7"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January 1980, I made my first photographs of Amtrak AEM-7s. They were then brand new. I didn’t much care for them then because the represented the end for my favorite GG1s. Nothing lasts forever, and now Amtrak\u00a0AEM-7s are rolling off their final miles.<\/p>\n

I made this photo of Amtrak 945 at South Station last year on the day before the first official run of Amtrak ACS-64 number 600.\u00a0The new ACS-64 are\u00a0locomotives that will ultimately supplant the AEM-7s on the North East Corridor.<\/p>\n

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Amtrak AEM-7<\/a> 945 at South Station, Boston<\/a>. Exposed on Fuji Acros 100 black & white film using a Leica M3 with 21mm Super Angulon. Processed in Kodak HC110.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And what of my first AEM-7 photos? I processed my\u00a0film using oxidized Microdol-X and the negatives were exceptionally thin. (under processed). Perhaps, if I can locate them, I can fix them in post-processing, but that’s a project for another day.<\/p>\n

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In January 1980, I made my first photographs of Amtrak AEM-7s. They were then brand new. I didn’t much care for them then because the represented the end for my favorite GG1s. Nothing lasts forever, and now Amtrak\u00a0AEM-7s are rolling off their final miles. I made this photo of Amtrak 945 at South Station last … Continue reading 35 Years for the AEM-7<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9545,"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":[3814,4537,2503,31,2409,2504,788],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Amtrak_945_South_Station_Br.jpg?fit=800%2C555","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546"}],"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=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9622,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions\/9622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}