Ruined Carfloat Tracks, Port Richmond, CA, 2011.
All the pixels, slightly structurally compromised, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5485081030
Ruined Carfloat Tracks, Port Richmond, CA, 2011.
All the pixels, slightly structurally compromised, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5485081030
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In response to this postCaptured with a small mirrorless camera and 50mm lens on a lightweight tripod.
I normally prefer lower contrast, but the ruined industrial subject worked reasonably well with a high contrast approach here. This is mostly a study in lines and shapes.
Until 1984, the Santa Fe Railroad moved freight cars across the San Francisco Bay by barge. Railroad cars were decoupled from trains and loaded onto special "carfloat" barges, which were pulled across the bay by a small fleet of tug boats, to be re-attached to trains at the other end. The service ended when a fire destroyed the Point Richmond pier (the East Bay terminal for the operation), and that was that.
A handful of rail carfloat operations continue in the US, most notably in NY Harbor.
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