{"id":10342,"date":"2015-03-21T03:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2015-03-21T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:00:12","slug":"canadian-national-caboose-passing-monson-semaphore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/canadian-national-caboose-passing-monson-semaphore\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian National Caboose passing Monson Semaphore."},"content":{"rendered":"

This old upper quadrant semaphore was located in Monson, Massachusetts about a mile from the Palmer diamond. It served as a fixed distant to the absolute signal protecting the crossing and was always in the diagonal position indicating \u2018approach\u2019.<\/p>\n

I made this image on July 20, 1986 of a northward Central Vermont freight (probably job 562).<\/p>\n

Purists may note that Canadian National referred to its cabooses as \u2018Vans\u2019. More relevant was that by this date, cabooses were becoming unusual in New England. Conrail began caboose-less operation on through freights a few years earlier.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on July 20, 1986 using a Rolleiflex Model T with \u2018Super slide\u2019 insert to make for a roughly 645-size black & white negative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even rarer in New England were semaphores. Yet this one survived until very recently, when Central Vermont successor New England Central finally replaced it with a color-light. See earlier post:\u00a0Monson Semaphore Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A minor point regarding this composition; I\u2019d released the shutter a moment too soon, and so the left-hand back of the caboose visually intersects with the semaphore ladder. This annoys me. Sometimes I\u00a0like a bit of visual tension in an image, but in this case it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

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Not that I can go back and try it again, as much as I\u2019d like to!<\/p>\n

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