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Rio Grande Zephyr West Bound, South Canyon West of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, April 1983.
The slight noticeable curvature of the livery straight line on the side of Engine #5771 is the dead give-away that my Speed Graphic’s focal plane shutter, rather than the 90 mm f8.0 Schneider Super Angulon’s leaf shutter, was used to make this unusual image of the west bound Zephyr at the Chacra Bridge in South Canyon, west of Glenwood Springs. Standing less than eight feet from the track on which this train was traveling 50 miles per hour implied that the engine’s front moved about two feet during the time of the 1/1000 sec exposure. At a distance this close to the track the relative angular motion of the train was such that completely stopping the engine’s motion was almost impossible with my vintage press camera. A focal plane shutter exposure slit must vertically travel four inches across the film plane, regardless of the shutter speed used. Though each section of the film was only exposed for 1/1000 second, the engine had moved two feet during the shutter exposure slit’s travel, causing the same kind of elongated image distortion that rendered the wheels of racing cars into oval shapes when photographed with cameras using focal plane shutters in the early twentieth century. An interesting anecdote for those willing to take the time to read and understand this post. This image demonstrated the power and speed of the Zephyr in a way that no other image I took of this storied train conveys. A spectator stood in the distance just beyond the front of the train, indicating the great interest in the Zephyr in its final days.
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