{"id":17376,"date":"2016-12-05T05:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:01:07","slug":"central-vermont-at-the-palmer-diamond-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-at-the-palmer-diamond-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Vermont at the Palmer Diamond\u20141977."},"content":{"rendered":"

This was one of several photos I exposed with my father\u2019s Leica 3C in Palmer, Massachusetts on Labor Day weekend 1977. I started 6th<\/sup> grade a couple of days later.<\/p>\n

Significantly, it was the first<\/em> time I made a photo from this location at the Palmer Diamond, where Central Vermont crossed Conrail\u2019s former Boston & Albany line. From near this spot, I\u2019ve since made many hundreds of photos\u2014more than I dare to count.<\/p>\n

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Grand Trunk GP9 4442 wearing black and orange paint leads a freight across Conrail’s former Boston & Albany mainline. Exposed on black & white film using a Leica 3C fitted with a 21mm Super-Angulon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Compare this 1977 view with my recent images of a CSX eastward intermodal train. (I posted these the other day, but have also included them below.)<\/p>\n

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In November 2016 a CSX intermodal train crosses the Palmer Diamond. This view is made from a spot immediately to the east of my 1977 view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"csx_q012_palmer_p1550722\"Looking back, I wonder why it took me so long to decide to make photos here. But realistically, prior to summer 1977 my railway photographic efforts were infrequent events.<\/p>\n

For my birthday that year, my dad gave me my own Leica, a model 3A, which I carried everywhere for the next seven years and with which I made thousands of images from the Maine coast to southern California, and from Quebec to Mexico.<\/p>\n

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This was one of several photos I exposed with my father\u2019s Leica 3C in Palmer, Massachusetts on Labor Day weekend 1977. I started 6th grade a couple of days later. Significantly, it was the first time I made a photo from this location at the Palmer Diamond, where Central Vermont crossed Conrail\u2019s former Boston & … Continue reading Central Vermont at the Palmer Diamond\u20141977.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3951,3814,111,1036,29,104,30,462],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4wg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376"}],"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=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}