{"id":17455,"date":"2017-01-05T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17455"},"modified":"2017-01-05T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:11:25","slug":"central-vermont-rs11-on-this-day-in-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-rs11-on-this-day-in-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Vermont RS-11s on this Day in 1983."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the administration office at Monson High School <em>may<\/em> have noted my absence.<\/p>\n<p>But the freshly fallen snow and Alco RS-11s working the road freight to New London distracted me. Really now, I think that making this sequence of\u00a0photographs was more important than sitting around in some old classroom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17454\" style=\"width: 1833px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17454\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-rs11-on-this-day-in-1983\/brian_solomon_578755\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?fit=1833%2C1091\" data-orig-size=\"1833,1091\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On January 5, 1983, CV RS-11 work a southward freight at Brimfield Road in Monson, Massachusetts. Exposed on Kodak Tri-X using a Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?fit=709%2C422\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?fit=474%2C282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17454\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?resize=474%2C282\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?w=1833 1833w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?resize=205%2C122 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?resize=709%2C422 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?resize=1022%2C608 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578755.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On January 5, 1983, CV RS-11s \u00a0work a southward freight at Chestnut Street\u00a0in Monson, Massachusetts. Exposed on Kodak Tri-X using a Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17453\" style=\"width: 1836px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17453\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-rs11-on-this-day-in-1983\/brian_solomon_578757\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?fit=1836%2C1089\" data-orig-size=\"1836,1089\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Look! A school bus. Ha!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?fit=709%2C421\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?fit=474%2C281\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?resize=474%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?w=1836 1836w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?resize=205%2C122 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?resize=709%2C421 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?resize=1022%2C606 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look! A school bus. Ha!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, 34 years later I still don\u2019t think I was wrong. Do you?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the administration office at Monson High School may have noted my absence. But the freshly fallen snow and Alco RS-11s working the road freight to New London distracted me. Really now, I think that making this sequence of\u00a0photographs was more important than sitting around in some old classroom. Now, 34 years later I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-rs11-on-this-day-in-1983\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Central Vermont RS-11s on this Day in 1983.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17453,"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":true,"_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":[3969,3814,1334,1067,103,1352],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578757.jpg?fit=1836%2C1089","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455"}],"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=17455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17599,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions\/17599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}