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March 1943. "A Southern Pacific freight passing Vaughn, New Mexico. The Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Southern Pacific R.R. at Vaughn." 4x3 inch Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
There's nothing between you and the North Pole but three rows of barbed wire.
and you can see your dog run away for three days.
It's so flat that on a clear day you can see the back of your own head.
I counted 34 boxcars. Average boxcar length in 1940 was 40 feet. So adding the caboose and locomotive, this train would have been about 1440 feet long. And yet so hard to see unless you zoom in.
Kodachrome in 35mm format was awesome enough. I can only imagine shooting it in a large format like 4 x 3 inch.
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