{"id":11824,"date":"2015-07-31T03:59:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T07:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2015-08-01T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T12:12:58","slug":"tunnel-motor-in-the-town-of-seven-railroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tunnel-motor-in-the-town-of-seven-railroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel Motor in the Town of Seven Railroads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes history has conclusions that no one anticipates.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have a former Southern Pacific SD40-T2 passing the abutments of the old Hampden Railroad near Three Rivers, in Palmer Massachusetts. You\u00a0could write a book about this scene!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11821\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/07\/31\/tunnel-motor-in-the-town-of-seven-railroads\/necr_3317_tunnel_motor_barratts_hamden_rr_abutments_dscf1982\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11821\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tunnel-motor-in-the-town-of-seven-railroads\/necr_3317_tunnel_motor_barratts_hamden_rr_abutments_dscf1982\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?fit=800%2C533\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.19&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;1 Ver&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0.12515644555695&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0035390645428217&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Paul Goewey for suggesting this location. It had been 30 years since my last visit. Hey where are the Rock Island GP18s?? &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11821\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Thanks to Paul Goewey for suggesting this location. It had been 30 years since my last visit. Hey where are the Rock Island GP18s?? \" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to Paul Goewey for suggesting this location. It had been 30 years since my last visit. Hey where are the Rock Island GP18s??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brian Solomon is traveling in Finland, but Tracking the Light should continue to post photographs\u00a0daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes history has conclusions that no one anticipates. Here we have a former Southern Pacific SD40-T2 passing the abutments of the old Hampden Railroad near Three Rivers, in Palmer Massachusetts. You\u00a0could write a book about this scene! Brian Solomon is traveling in Finland, but Tracking the Light should continue to post photographs\u00a0daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11821,"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":[2841,30,2842],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NECR_3317_tunnel_motor_Barratts_Hamden_RR_abutments_DSCF1982.jpg?fit=800%2C533","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-34I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824"}],"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=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}