{"id":18602,"date":"2017-05-31T05:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18602"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:18:54","slug":"evening-sun-southward-freight-and-a-signal-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/evening-sun-southward-freight-and-a-signal-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Sun, Southward Freight and a Signal Lesson."},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, my friend Tim and I made photos of Pan Am Railway\u2019s EDPL crossing the Connecticut River at Holyoke, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

A short history: Back in 1982, Conrail spun off some New England routes, including a group of former New Haven Railroad lines in Connecticut. Providence & Worcester and Boston & Maine were among the lines that picked up former Conrail routes.<\/p>\n

A vestige of this acquisition, is Pan Am Railway\u2019s (which operates the old Boston & Maine) East Deerfield, Massachusetts to Plainville, Connecticut freight.<\/p>\n

Since this Pan Am freight works over Amtrak\u2019s cab signal equipped Springfield-Hartford-New Haven line, the leading locomotive must be fitted with cab signal equipment on that portion of the run.<\/p>\n

Since Pan Am only has a few locomotives so fitted (including MEC 352 seen trailing in this view), so today\u2019s train was led by (leased or borrowed?) Providence & Worcester GP38-2 2009 that has the necessary cab signaling (installed for use on P&W\u2019s North East Corridor freight assignments.)<\/p>\n

This has been a common occurrence in recent years. Significantly, P&W has been acquired by the Genesee & Wyoming family, and it will be interesting to see how much longer locomotives will operate in the older P&W livery.<\/p>\n

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Exposed digitally using my FujiFilm X-T1 with 27mm pancake lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the record: this photo was made on former Boston & Maine trackage, which is not cab-signal equipped. (Cab signal territory will begin about a dozen miles to the south of this location, once on Amtrak trackage)<\/p>\n

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Two weeks ago, my friend Tim and I made photos of Pan Am Railway\u2019s EDPL crossing the Connecticut River at Holyoke, Massachusetts. A short history: Back in 1982, Conrail spun off some New England routes, including a group of former New Haven Railroad lines in Connecticut. Providence & Worcester and Boston & Maine were among … Continue reading Evening Sun, Southward Freight and a Signal Lesson.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18601,"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":[242,891,1263,2499,82,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pan_Am_EDPL_w_PW_locomotive_on_Conn-River_Bridge_at_Holyoke_DSCF5161.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Q2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602"}],"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=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18604,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions\/18604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}