{"id":13314,"date":"2015-12-01T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2015-11-30T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:08:27","slug":"snow-and-old-emd-diesels-stafford-springs-february-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/snow-and-old-emd-diesels-stafford-springs-february-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow and Old EMD Diesels: Stafford Springs February 1985."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a great day for <\/strong>black & white photography.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fluffy snow had been falling all morning. Central Vermont\u2019s freight arrived in Palmer and quickly organized to continue south.<\/p>\n

I followed the train\u2019s steady progress over State Line Hill, then set up in downtown Stafford Springs, Connecticut where I made these photos on Ilford FP4 black & white negative film using my Leica 3A with 50mm lens.<\/p>\n

\"Central<\/a>
Central Vermont southward freight at Stafford Springs, Connecticut on February 2, 1985.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Trailing<\/a>
Trailing view of the same train crossing Route 32 in Stafford Springs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For me this pair of images does a great job of exemplifying my experience with Central Vermont in the mid-1980s when three, four, five, six, and sometimes seven vintage GP9s would work tonnage freights. The sounds of those old diesels still resonates in my memory.<\/p>\n

Would these images have be improved by\u00a0modern color digital photography? Would they\u00a0survive for 31 years with virtually no attention from me? For that matter, where will these old\u00a0negatives or the\u00a0scans be in another 31 years?<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light has Posted more than 1200 Essays on Railway Photography!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a great day for black & white photography. Fluffy snow had been falling all morning. Central Vermont\u2019s freight arrived in Palmer and quickly organized to continue south. I followed the train\u2019s steady progress over State Line Hill, then set up in downtown Stafford Springs, Connecticut where I made these photos on Ilford FP4 … Continue reading Snow and Old EMD Diesels: Stafford Springs February 1985.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13311,"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":[3786,3814,4537,2708,111,3122,156,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CV_Stafford_Springs_CT_Feb2_1985_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_663049.jpg?fit=1748%2C1143&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3sK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13315,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/13315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}