{"id":10336,"date":"2015-03-20T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2015-03-20T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:29:47","slug":"classic-kodachrome-montreal-built-at-state-line-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-kodachrome-montreal-built-at-state-line-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Kodachrome: Montreal-built at State Line Crossing."},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0the mid-1980s, Canadian National Railway\u2019s Montreal Locomotive Works M-420s were commonly operated on its Central Vermont Railway subsidiary.<\/p>\n

It might seem odd in retrospect, but I wasn\u2019t keen on these peculiar locomotives when they were common. Although they were derived from an Alco design, and I was big fan of Alco, I thought they were\u00a0ugly and not ‘real’ Alcos. I much preferred Central Vermont\u2019s own Alco RS-11s.<\/p>\n

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June 25, 1986, State Line Crossing, Monson, Massachusets. Exposed on Kodachrome 25 slide film with a Leica 3A fitted with a 65mm Elmar using a Visoflex.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My ill-founded prejudices never stopped me from making photographs of the M-420s. And even back in 1986, I was pleased to catch this one leading Central Vermont\u2019s freight 562 across Route 32 in Monson, Massachusetts (immediately north of the Massachusetts-Connecticut State Line).<\/p>\n

This is the top of State Line Hill and it was all downgrade from here. I\u2019m standing on a pile of ballast for elevation.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0the mid-1980s, Canadian National Railway\u2019s Montreal Locomotive Works M-420s were commonly operated on its Central Vermont Railway subsidiary. It might seem odd in retrospect, but I wasn\u2019t keen on these peculiar locomotives when they were common. Although they were derived from an Alco design, and I was big fan of Alco, I thought they were\u00a0ugly … Continue reading Classic Kodachrome: Montreal-built at State Line Crossing.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4537,111,7535,2620,103,1096,1522],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CV-Ry-562-State-Line-Monson.jpg?fit=800%2C544","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2GI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10339,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/10339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}