{"id":18571,"date":"2017-05-25T07:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18571"},"modified":"2017-05-25T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:04:06","slug":"pan-am-southerns-boston-maine-at-greenfield-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pan-am-southerns-boston-maine-at-greenfield-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan Am Southern\u2019s Boston & Maine at Greenfield, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, on my way to Greenfield, Massachusetts, I learned there were a pair of westward freights heading over the old Boston & Maine Fitchburg route.<\/p>\n

Pan Am\u2019s EDRJ (East Deerfield to Rotterdam Junction) was nearly ready to depart East Deerfield yard, while empty autorack train symbol 287 (coming from Ayer, Massachusetts) was to run around it and proceed west first.<\/p>\n

I opted for a different angle, deciding to make photos from the passenger platform built to serve Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter in 2014.<\/p>\n

I made these views with my FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with 18-135mm zoom lens.<\/p>\n

Thin morning cloud\/haze helped soften the effects of backlighting at this location.<\/p>\n

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Pan Am symbol freight 287 works west at Greenfield, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wide angle view; Pan Am symbol freight 287 works west at Greenfield, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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About 20 minutes after 287, Pan Am’s EDRJ came into view. In the lead are two of the former CSX GE-built Dash8-40Cs. I made this view to show more of the environment, including the chain-link fence by the passenger platform.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wide view of EDRJ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nice shade of blue on Pan Am painted EMD diesels. Wouldn’t the GE Dash8-40Cs look nice in this paint?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Subtle control in post processing can really make a difference.<\/p>\n

These images were adapted from the camera RAW files. I adjusted shadow contrast among other small changes to further balance for backlighting.<\/p>\n

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Last week, on my way to Greenfield, Massachusetts, I learned there were a pair of westward freights heading over the old Boston & Maine Fitchburg route. Pan Am\u2019s EDRJ (East Deerfield to Rotterdam Junction) was nearly ready to depart East Deerfield yard, while empty autorack train symbol 287 (coming from Ayer, Massachusetts) was to run … Continue reading Pan Am Southern\u2019s Boston & Maine at Greenfield, Massachusetts.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18569,"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":[48],"tags":[1640,242,768,1623,1880,82,883],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pan_Am_287_at_Greenfield_MOD1_DSCF5004.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Px","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571"}],"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=18571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18572,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions\/18572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}