{"id":17370,"date":"2016-12-02T05:44:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17370"},"modified":"2016-11-30T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T11:49:23","slug":"theres-nothing-like-a-clear-morning-careful-navigation-scores-the-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/theres-nothing-like-a-clear-morning-careful-navigation-scores-the-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Nothing Like a Clear Morning\u2014Careful Navigation Scores the Shot."},"content":{"rendered":"

The other morning I was aiming for a haircut. I arrived early and the barber wasn\u2019t open yet, but I noticed an eastward CSX intermodal train on the old Boston & Albany that was\u00a0slowing for the Palmer diamond.<\/p>\n

I was on Route 20, about a mile west of Palmer, Massachusetts. I turned the car around, and immediately proceeded east in pursuit. (Haircuts can wait). However, road works at the New England Central bridge over the road caused me a critical delay.<\/p>\n

Although the intermodal train was likely blocked, I wasn\u2019t making any progress either, and I still had all<\/em> of Palmer to get through in morning traffic. As a result, I took a detour and cut over the mountain using Old Warren Road\u2014a favorite shortcut of Bob Buck\u2019s that he showed me many years ago.<\/p>\n

This saves several miles, but doesn\u2019t follow the tracks.<\/p>\n

As a result, I was able to be in place at West Warren several minutes ahead of the train. After exposing these views I retraced my steps and returned to my original mission!<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 photo at West Warren, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 photo at West Warren, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The other morning I was aiming for a haircut. I arrived early and the barber wasn\u2019t open yet, but I noticed an eastward CSX intermodal train on the old Boston & Albany that was\u00a0slowing for the Palmer diamond. I was on Route 20, about a mile west of Palmer, Massachusetts. I turned the car around, … Continue reading There\u2019s Nothing Like a Clear Morning\u2014Careful Navigation Scores the Shot.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17369,"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":[3949,41,35,30,1145],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CSX_intermodal_train_West_Warren_P1550763.jpg?fit=1632%2C1224","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4wa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370"}],"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=17370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17371,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370\/revisions\/17371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}