{"id":12849,"date":"2015-10-16T01:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2015-10-16T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T13:59:33","slug":"palmer-diamond-s-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/palmer-diamond-s-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Diamond (s) Then and Now."},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to the black & white variations I posted the other day showing Central Vermont Railway RS-11s crossing the Palmer diamonds, I exposed this view made at precisely the same location.<\/p>\n

In 1984, Conrail\u2019s directional double track line crossed Central Vermont. Today, CSXT\u2019s single track line crosses Genessee & Wyoming\u2019s New England Central.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
New England Central southward freight waits to cross CSXT\u2019s former Boston & Albany at Palmer, Massachusetts on October 14, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New England Central southward freight waits to cross CSXT\u2019s former Boston & Albany at Palmer, Massachusetts on October 14, 2015. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Here<\/a>
Palmer April 13, 1984.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than just the tracks, names and locomotives have changed.<\/p>\n

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As a follow up to the black & white variations I posted the other day showing Central Vermont Railway RS-11s crossing the Palmer diamonds, I exposed this view made at precisely the same location. In 1984, Conrail\u2019s directional double track line crossed Central Vermont. Today, CSXT\u2019s single track line crosses Genessee & Wyoming\u2019s New England … Continue reading Palmer Diamond (s) Then and Now.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12847,"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":[1067,111,887,104,81,30,3014],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NECR_Palmer_P1330515.jpg?fit=999%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849"}],"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=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12878,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions\/12878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}