Spring 1974.

My father and I had spotted a northward Penn-Central freight near Hartford, Connecticut. We hopped on I-91 and raced north to Springfield.

My photos of the freight were poor efforts. However, a little while later this pair of Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) departed Springfield for Hartford and New Haven.

While not my first railroad photo, it is among my oldest extant color images.

I exposed it on Ektachrome.

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