{"id":18632,"date":"2017-06-06T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18632"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:19:36","slug":"orange-locomotives-on-the-roll-611-works-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/orange-locomotives-on-the-roll-611-works-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Locomotives on the Roll\u2014611 works North."},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Central\u2019s 611 works from Brattleboro to Palmer and return.<\/p>\n

The other day, Paul Goewey and I intercepted this freight on its northward run.<\/p>\n

A former Conrail SD40 was in the lead, and a recently painted Providence & Worcester DASH8-40B was trailing. Two out of three locomotives wore Genesee & Wyoming\u2019s corporate livery.<\/p>\n

Then the sun came out.<\/p>\n

We drove to a preselected location north of Barretts, Massachusetts and I made these photos with my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/p>\n

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To make for a more interesting composition, I positioned my camera to include the overhanging branch. The juxtoposition of the branch, clouds and train make for a nice triangular arrangement that is more interesting to look at the than just a train crossing a field. But would this work if the locomotives were black or dark green?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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611 is often a very long freight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New England Central\u2019s 611 works from Brattleboro to Palmer and return. The other day, Paul Goewey and I intercepted this freight on its northward run. A former Conrail SD40 was in the lead, and a recently painted Providence & Worcester DASH8-40B was trailing. Two out of three locomotives wore Genesee & Wyoming\u2019s corporate livery. Then … Continue reading Orange Locomotives on the Roll\u2014611 works North.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18631,"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":[48],"tags":[4213,4537,2205,854,81,1289],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NECR_611_north_of_Barratts_DSCF5339.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632"}],"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=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18642,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions\/18642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}