{"id":12989,"date":"2015-10-26T02:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T06:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2015-10-26T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T11:56:46","slug":"ballast-train-departs-east-deerfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ballast-train-departs-east-deerfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballast Train departs East Deerfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to yesterday\u2019s post; while waiting for Pan Am Southern 14R with Union Pacific SD70Ms, Mike Gardner and I photographed an empty ballast train with an old GP40 departing on the East Deerfield Loop, where it will travel a short distance to crusher for loading.<\/p>\n

I thought it made an interesting juxtaposition to show the old EMD with its battered ballast hoppers departing the switches at the west-end with the Union Pacific locomotives waiting in the distance.<\/p>\n

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Pan Am’s empty ballast train departs East Deerfield on October 22, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The empty ballast train takes the switch for the East Deerfield Loop track. It will be loaded just a short distance from the yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Which<\/a>
Which is more interesting, the old ballast train or symbol freight 14?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Which train was the main event? In the future,\u00a0which may be of greater interest? The lowly ballast train or the symbol through freight with \u2018foreign power\u2019? What do you think?<\/p>\n

I exposed these photos using my FujiFilm X-T1 mirror-less digital camera.<\/p>\n

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As a follow-up to yesterday\u2019s post; while waiting for Pan Am Southern 14R with Union Pacific SD70Ms, Mike Gardner and I photographed an empty ballast train with an old GP40 departing on the East Deerfield Loop, where it will travel a short distance to crusher for loading. I thought it made an interesting juxtaposition to … Continue reading Ballast Train departs East Deerfield<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12986,"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":[685,3032,241,82,280],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Pan_Am_ballast_train_departs_yard_trailing_view_DSCF5145.jpg?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3nv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989"}],"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=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}