{"id":14723,"date":"2016-04-03T05:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T09:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14723"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:55:14","slug":"conrail-sd40-at-bullards-road-washington-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-sd40-at-bullards-road-washington-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail SD40 at Bullards Road, Washington Summit."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conrail eastward freight at Bullards Road, Hinsdale, Massachusetts on August 3, 1984. Take notice the former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2, Conrail 6659, second out. Some of those old EMD\u2019s are still on the move. This day it\u2019s 20-cylinder 645-diesel was adding to atmosphere. (Fear not, I have plenty of photos of the SD45-2s on the B&A and elsewhere on Conrail).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking back more than three decades; it was a warm August 1984 afternoon when my pal T.S.H. and I sat up on the grassy hill near the popular Bullards Road Bridge to photograph this Conrail eastward freight as it approached Boston & Albany\u2019s summit of the\u00a0Berkshire grade.<\/p>\n

I made this image on 35mm Kodak Tri-X using my Leica 3A with a Canon 50mm lens.<\/p>\n

Conrail was divided in Spring 1999, nearly 15 years after this photo was exposed.<\/p>\n

In 2003, CSX removed the old Bullards Road bridge (and stone abutments).<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say for certain what happened to the SD40, but a similar former Conrail engine still works for New England Central.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’d trade my digital cameras for a fully functioning time machine.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light acknowledges <\/span><\/h3>\n

Conrail\u2019s 40th<\/sup> Anniversary!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Looking back more than three decades; it was a warm August 1984 afternoon when my pal T.S.H. and I sat up on the grassy hill near the popular Bullards Road Bridge to photograph this Conrail eastward freight as it approached Boston & Albany\u2019s summit of the\u00a0Berkshire grade. I made this image on 35mm Kodak Tri-X … Continue reading Conrail SD40 at Bullards Road, Washington Summit.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14722,"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":[3814,4537,41,3439,53,3438,3009],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Conrail_BA_Aug3_1984_Washington_Summit_Bullards_Road_Brian-Solomon-234775.jpg?fit=2546%2C1570","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723"}],"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=14723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14777,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions\/14777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}