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Rio Grande Zephyr, East Bound, South Canyon, Colorado, April 1983
The last privately operated main line scheduled passenger service in the United States was operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City.
Famously known for its stainless steel fluted Art Deco Vista Dome cars, designed to allow passengers to see the full height of the walls of Glenwood Canyon east of Glenwood Springs, the Zephyr was a railfan favorite for the decades after WWII to 1983.After this train ceased service in April of 1983, all passenger service in the United States became operated by Amtrak.
With the certain knowledge that the Zephyr would be making its last east and west bound runs in April of 1983, Marc Schuman endeavored to take the best possible photographs of this fabled train.
Choosing a 4×5 Calumet View Camera equipped with a 150mm f5.6 Symmar Lens, Marc selected Kodak Ektachrome film as the best available to record the train speeding by on its east-bound run. A high resolution digital scan of the resulting 4×5 transparency produces extremely high quality ink jet prints.
Even at the fastest shutter speed on the Symmar lens, 1/500 second, the observation car is slightly blurred from the relative motion of the train. This gives the sense of speed, while portions of the train farther toward the front remain sharp.
Fair spring weather with abundant sunshine, a heightened camera position on a special twelve foot free-standing ladder, and careful planning on the precise moment for firing the shutter for a single shot all combine to produce the image you see of the train traveling at 50 mph.
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