{"id":13030,"date":"2015-10-30T01:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13030"},"modified":"2015-10-30T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:25:09","slug":"locomotive-geometry-norfolk-southern-sd60e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/locomotive-geometry-norfolk-southern-sd60e\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotive Geometry: Norfolk Southern SD60E."},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I had my first encounter with one of Norfolk Southern\u2019s SD60E diesel-electrics, which features a modified cab.<\/p>\n

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Since today\u2019s North American freight railroading tends to be dominated by cookie cutter wide-nose safety cab six-motor diesels, I find any variation in cab style noteworthy.<\/p>\n

The beetle-brow look on this engine certainly caught my attention. And since it was paused on an eastward freight near Lake Pleasant, east of East Deerfield, I took the opportunity to make a few detail photos that emphasize the unusual cab shape.<\/p>\n

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I wonder what the engine crews think of this innovation?<\/p>\n

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The other day I had my first encounter with one of Norfolk Southern\u2019s SD60E diesel-electrics, which features a modified cab. Since today\u2019s North American freight railroading tends to be dominated by cookie cutter wide-nose safety cab six-motor diesels, I find any variation in cab style noteworthy. The beetle-brow look on this engine certainly caught my … Continue reading Locomotive Geometry: Norfolk Southern SD60E.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13028,"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":[3038,59,3036,3037],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NS_SD60E_6966_Lake_Pleasant_Montague_detail_DSCF5426.jpg?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030"}],"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=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}