{"id":16879,"date":"2016-10-09T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16879"},"modified":"2016-10-05T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:10:45","slug":"csx-intermodal-catches-the-first-rays-of-sunshine-middlefield-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-intermodal-catches-the-first-rays-of-sunshine-middlefield-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX Intermodal catches the First Rays of Sunshine\u2014Middlefield, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last May (2016), I made this view of an eastward CSX stack train descending the old Boston &amp; Albany grade over Washington Hill.<\/p>\n<p>I was just east of the old Middlefield Station (long defunct), where my late friend Bob Buck had exposed some classic images of B&amp;A&#8217;s A1 Berkshires.<\/p>\n<p>A hill behind me blocks the rising sun, until after 6:30am in May. I could hear the train descending as the first rays of sun tickled the iron. Morning clouds waft across the sky making for inky shadows.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16877\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16877\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-intermodal-catches-the-first-rays-of-sunshine-middlefield-massachusetts\/csx_eb_intermodal_at_middlefield_dscf7490-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633\" data-orig-size=\"2449,1633\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1463406637&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"csx_eb_intermodal_at_middlefield_dscf7490-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16877\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Exposed using a Fujifilm X-T1 digital camera.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed using a Fujifilm X-T1 digital camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian Solomon&#8217;s Tracking the Light is on auto pilot.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light attempts to post daily! (even when plagued by technical faults, internet outages, and an ambitious travel schedule).<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May (2016), I made this view of an eastward CSX stack train descending the old Boston &amp; Albany grade over Washington Hill. I was just east of the old Middlefield Station (long defunct), where my late friend Bob Buck had exposed some classic images of B&amp;A&#8217;s A1 Berkshires. A hill behind me blocks the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-intermodal-catches-the-first-rays-of-sunshine-middlefield-massachusetts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSX Intermodal catches the First Rays of Sunshine\u2014Middlefield, Massachusetts.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16877,"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":[41,35,193,1092,535,104,783,236],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CSX_eb_intermodal_at_Middlefield_DSCF7490-2.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879"}],"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=16879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16881,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions\/16881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}