File:A Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coal train approaches Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia LCCN2015634306.tif
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[edit]DescriptionA Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coal train approaches Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia LCCN2015634306.tif |
English: Title: A Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coal train approaches Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; In the 2010 census it's population was 5. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the C&O line. The town was the filming location for John Sayles' 1987 movie "Matewan" since it still possesses many of the characteristics of a 1920s Appalachian coal town. As of 2015, much of Thurmond is owned by the National Park Service for the New River Gorge National River. The passenger railway depot in town, renovated in 1995, functions as a Park Service visitor center, and occasional coal trains such as this one still pass through. Thurmond, incorporated in 1903, was named for onetime Confederate Army captain William Thurmond, who had surveyed the area.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. |
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Camera location | 37° 57′ 31.07″ N, 81° 04′ 49.47″ W ![]() ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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Image title | A Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coal train approaches Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia. (Its population in the 2010 census was 5.) During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the C&O line. The town was the filming location for John Sayles' 1987 movie "Matewan" since it still possesses many of the characteristics of a 1920s Appalachian coal town. As of 2015, much of Thurmond is owned by the National Park Service for the New River Gorge National River. The passenger railway depot in town, renovated in 1995, functions as a Park Service visitor center, and occasional coal trains such as this one still pass through. Thurmond, incorporated in 1903, was named for onetime Confederate Army captain William Thurmond, who had surveyed the area. |
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
Camera model | Canon EOS 5DS R |
Author | Photographer: Carol M. Highsmith |
Copyright holder | Carol M Highsmith |
Exposure time | 1/640 sec (0.0015625) |
F-number | f/5 |
ISO speed rating | 100 |
Date and time of data generation | 10:53, 20 October 2015 |
Lens focal length | 24 mm |
Latitude | 37° 57′ 31.07″ N |
Longitude | 81° 4′ 49.46″ W |
Altitude | 327.6 meters above sea level |
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Image data location | 33,664 |
Orientation | Normal |
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Bytes per compressed strip | 225,334,872 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 21:23, 31 October 2015 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:53, 20 October 2015 |
APEX shutter speed | 9.321928 |
APEX aperture | 4.643856 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 09 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Focal plane X resolution | 2,413.3333435059 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 2,413.3333435059 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Scene capture type | Standard |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 15:53 |
Satellites used for measurement | 12 |
Receiver status | Measurement in progress |
Measurement mode | 3-dimensional measurement |
Measurement precision | Poor (4.5) |
Reference for direction of image | Magnetic direction |
Direction of image | 16 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS-84 |
GPS date | 20 October 2015 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.3.2 |
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