Golden Spike Locomotive No. 119 Acrylic Print

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The Union Pacific Railroad's locomotive No. 119 belches steam as it makes its way into position for the ceremonies celebrating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and the driving of the golden spike on the morning of May 10, 2019 and Golden Spike National Historic Site in Promentory, Utah.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...