{"id":17468,"date":"2016-12-19T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2016-12-19T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:05:21","slug":"conrail-classic-chrome-sd80macs-at-the-twin-ledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-classic-chrome-sd80macs-at-the-twin-ledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail Classic Chrome\u2014SD80MACs at the Twin Ledges."},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo appeared in Pacific RailNews\/RailNews not long after I exposed it on Kodachrome 25 in October 1996. [Click on Tracking the Light<\/a> for the full vertical image.]<\/p>\n

The Twin Ledges is a classic photo location a mile or so west of the old Boston & Albany Middlefield Station in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Conrail\u2019s SD80MACs were an unusual modern locomotive because they were powered by a 20-cylinder variation of EMD\u2019s 710 diesel, \u00a0rated at 5,000 hp. They arrived only a few years before Conrail was bought and divided by CSX and Norfolk Southern.<\/p>\n

Although their operation on the old B&A was short-lived, they were oft photographed (by me anyway).<\/p>\n

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Classic Kodachrome: a vertical telephoto view of Conrail SD80MACs leading symbol freight ML482 at the Twin Ledges in October 1996.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This photo appeared in Pacific RailNews\/RailNews not long after I exposed it on Kodachrome 25 in October 1996. [Click on Tracking the Light for the full vertical image.] The Twin Ledges is a classic photo location a mile or so west of the old Boston & Albany Middlefield Station in the Berkshire Hills of western … Continue reading Conrail Classic Chrome\u2014SD80MACs at the Twin Ledges.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17469,"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":[4537,41,53,9,1265,993],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Conrail_SD80MACs_ML482_Twin_Ledges_Middlefield_MA_Oct4_1996_KM_BrianSolomon\u00a9590050-2.jpg?fit=1619%2C1235","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4xK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468"}],"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=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17476,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions\/17476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}