{"id":6068,"date":"2014-03-27T03:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2014-03-20T05:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T09:43:16","slug":"looking-back-on-the-end-of-an-era-daily-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/looking-back-on-the-end-of-an-era-daily-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back on the End of an Era\u2014Daily Post."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lincoln Park, Rochester, New York, January 8, 1986.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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B&O GP30 works at Lincoln Park, Rochester, New York on 3:15pm January 8, 1986. Exposed with a Leica 3A rangefinder on Kodachrome 64.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a cold afternoon with more than a foot of fresh snow on the ground. Soft wintery sun made for directional pastel lighting, ideal for railway photography.<\/p>\n

I found this Baltimore & Ohio local freight working sidings adjacent to Conrail\u2019s former New York Central mainline. At the time, what interested me was the GP30 still wearing B&O blue with the classic capitol dome on the nose, and the caboose. By that date both types of equipment were getting scarce.<\/p>\n

Technically, CSX had been the umbrella over Chessie System (the marketing name for the affiliated B&O, Chesapeake & Ohio, Western Maryland railroads) for several years. But this didn\u2019t seem important to me. I was blissfully unaware of CSX, or that it planned to soon sell B&O\u2019s former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh lines to Genesee & Wyoming.<\/p>\n

In fact, by summer, B&O operations would be conveyed to G&W\u2019s newly created Rochester & Southern, and two years later remaining BR&P lines to G&W\u2019s Buffalo & Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Even more dramatic, in 1987 CSX would meld B&O into its new CSX Transportation; a system-wide rebranding that would soon affect all of CSX\u2019s railroads. Ironically, one of the first locomotives I photographed in CSXT paint was a former B&O GP30!<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow: Continuing adventures on the Ballina Branch!<\/p>\n

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