THE LAST KODACHROME. One day, someone will estimate the environmental impact of digital photography displacing film photography that depends on photosensitive chemicals. The substitution of digital for film has induced retrenchments, including Kodak's phaseout of Kodachrome.

There was one reel left in the camera, and I had to finish it before the last processing lab closes. (Shutter priority, sufficient light for 1/500 sec., open to f5.6.)

Savanna, Illinois, below Mississippi Palisades State Park.
September 27, 2009.

I'm surprised that BNSF is running baretable trains in the middle of a recession. (With as much idle shipping capacity as there is, making a joke about negative stacks on this train seems a bit much.) Here is evidence that such trains are being run.

Kodachrome has long been the film of choice for ferroequinologists, although it was possible that visitors to Disney World went through more of the stuff in a day than all the trainspotters in Illinois went through in a summer of fan trips.