{"id":9608,"date":"2015-01-07T02:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T07:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2015-01-07T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T14:07:42","slug":"conrail-from-the-archives-along-the-erie-railroad-november-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-from-the-archives-along-the-erie-railroad-november-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail from the Archives: Along the Erie Railroad November 1988."},"content":{"rendered":"

From Common to Classic.<\/p>\n

I made this square-format black & white photograph on the morning of November 6, 1988 using my father\u2019s old Rollei Model T.<\/p>\n

\"Conrail<\/a>
Conrail C30-7A 6595 leads ELOI eastbound along the Allegheny River west of Allegany, New York at 11:58am on November 6, 1988. Exposed on ISO 400 Kodak Tri-X with a Rollei Model T with 75mm Zeiss Tessar, f5.6 1\/250th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the time, I was traveling with Pete Swanson in his 1980s-era Renault Encore. We’d driven down from the Rochester area, and at 11:11 am we intercepted Conrail\u2019s ELOI (Elkhart, Indiana to Oak Island freight) working east on the former Erie Railroad mainline west of Salamanca.<\/p>\n

Track conditions made this a fairly easy chase, and we made several images around Salamanca, New York.<\/p>\n

A few weeks earlier, I\u2019d made some photo copies of USGS topo maps for the Salamanca area, and on a previous trip scoped out this location, located between Carrollton and Allegany, New York.<\/p>\n

Although only a short distance from old highway 17 (at that time I don\u2019t think the grade separate Route 17 had been completed), this location require a little fore-knowledge as it wasn\u2019t obvious from the road.<\/p>\n

Conrail had recently performed\u00a0some work along this section of\u00a0old Erie route which opened up photo locations such as this one. Today, the line is operated by the Western New York & Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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A tightly cropped portion of the above photo. I scanned my old negatives using an Epson V600 flatbed scanner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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From Common to Classic. I made this square-format black & white photograph on the morning of November 6, 1988 using my father\u2019s old Rollei Model T. At the time, I was traveling with Pete Swanson in his 1980s-era Renault Encore. We’d driven down from the Rochester area, and at 11:11 am we intercepted Conrail\u2019s ELOI … Continue reading Conrail from the Archives: Along the Erie Railroad November 1988.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9606,"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":[3814,4537,2515,2513,2514,53,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ELOI-CROP_east-of-Salamanca.jpg?fit=800%2C372","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2uY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608"}],"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=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}