{"id":15279,"date":"2016-05-17T05:12:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2016-05-16T20:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:26:21","slug":"ringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-circus-train-on-washington-hill-may-16-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-circus-train-on-washington-hill-may-16-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train on Washington Hill\u2014May 16, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was very windy, and I spent the whole morning standing around along the old Boston & Albany mainline reading about 19th<\/sup> century industrial practice while waiting for trains to pass.<\/p>\n

I posted the photos I made of an eastward Norfolk Southern detour train near Middlefield, Massachusetts yesterday evening.<\/p>\n

My goal was to catch the\u00a0Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train, that was rumored to be on the move.<\/p>\n

But, after 8 hours standing in the cold, I decided to head downgrade.<\/p>\n

Nearing Westfield, the scanner came to life, \u2018clear signal CP109\u2019.<\/p>\n

Time for a U-turn.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d scoped a location near Huntington.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this neatly coincided with a fast moving cloud. Bad luck.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A dark dirty cloud covered the sun at precisely the wrong moment. (It lifted in time for me to grab a wide-angle view on Fujichrome.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"CSXT_Circus_Train_DSCF7561\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A bit of hard driving got me to Washington Summit ahead of the train. The clouds stayed at bay.<\/p>\n

All of these images were exposed with my FujiFilm X-T1 mirror-less digital camera.<\/p>\n

Slides from the event remain latent.<\/p>\n

\"Near<\/a>
Near Washington Summit at the location known as ‘Muddy Pond’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train is a long consist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Containers<\/a>
Containers and trailers were at the back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking the Light is Daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was very windy, and I spent the whole morning standing around along the old Boston & Albany mainline reading about 19th century industrial practice while waiting for trains to pass. I posted the photos I made of an eastward Norfolk Southern detour train near Middlefield, Massachusetts yesterday evening. My goal was to catch the\u00a0Ringling … Continue reading Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train on Washington Hill\u2014May 16, 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15275,"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":[10,48],"tags":[3786,41,1971,7535,3537,1447],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CSXT_Circus_Train_DSCF7561.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279"}],"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=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}