{"id":18770,"date":"2017-06-25T05:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18770"},"modified":"2017-06-24T22:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T02:43:42","slug":"csx-q422-at-palmer-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-q422-at-palmer-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX Q422 at Palmer, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days most of CSX\u2019s scheduled through car-load freights tend to traverse the east end of the old Boston & Albany during darkness.<\/p>\n

True, there\u2019s a couple of intermodal trains, and Amtrak\u2019s Lake Shore Limited<\/em> during the day, but if you want to see an old-school freight train in daylight you\u2019ll have a long wait.<\/p>\n

Early in the morning of June 23, 2017, I went over to CP83 (control point 83 miles from South Station) on spec to see if I could catch some freight on the move.<\/p>\n

I have a sixth sense or really good hearing (or both), because I stepped out of the car, and I could hear a distant freight with GE diesels laboring toward Palmer.<\/p>\n

I fitted my FujiFilm X-T1 with my fast (f2.0) 90mm lens and walked up to the South Main Street bridge, where I\u2019ve made hundreds of photos over the years.<\/p>\n

As the train approached, I realized that it wasn\u2019t an intermodal train, as I expected, but a carload freight. It was CSX\u2019s Q422 (Selkirk, New York to Worcester, Massachusetts).<\/p>\n

At 5:29am I made these photos with my camera set to ISO 800, f2.2 1\/250 second handheld. The ability to raise the ISO to a faster (more sensitive) setting combined with my fast telephoto lens allows for photos like this one.<\/p>\n

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ISO 800, f2.2 1\/250 second handheld.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ISO 800, f2.2 1\/250 second handheld.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In my old Kodachrome 25 days, my exposure with my Nikon F3 and f2.8 135mm lens (offering an equivalent focal length to the 90mm with the small sensor on the X-T1) would have been: f3.5 at \u00bc second. The resulting image of this moving train would have been dramatically different.<\/p>\n

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These days most of CSX\u2019s scheduled through car-load freights tend to traverse the east end of the old Boston & Albany during darkness. True, there\u2019s a couple of intermodal trains, and Amtrak\u2019s Lake Shore Limited during the day, but if you want to see an old-school freight train in daylight you\u2019ll have a long wait. … Continue reading CSX Q422 at Palmer, Massachusetts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18768,"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":[10,48],"tags":[3786,41,35,104,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CSX_Q422_at_CP83_Palmer_MOD1_DSCF6045.jpg?fit=1731%2C1154","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770"}],"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=18770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18771,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions\/18771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}