{"id":18786,"date":"2017-06-28T05:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18786"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:42:23","slug":"18786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/18786\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermonter north of Northampton, Massachusetts (and a hint of something to come)."},"content":{"rendered":"

Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter passing an old Tobacco Barn in the Connecticut River flood plain north of Northampton, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Sunday, June 25, 2017, Amtrak\u2019s mobile App indicated that train No. 54, the Sunday Vermonter<\/em> had departed Northampton about 7 minutes past the advertised.<\/p>\n

Tim suggested we try the location pictured here (right off Massachusetts Route 5). It\u2019s the same spot that about a month earlier we caught Pan Am Railway\u2019s office car special returning from Springfield.<\/p>\n

This setting reminds me of locations in Illinois and Iowa, looking across farm fields with old barns as props. In the mid-1990s, I made many photos along those lines.<\/p>\n

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Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1 at 1\/1000th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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While waiting for the train, I made this view of the barns on infrared black & white film using a Leica IIIa with 50mm Summitar lens fitted with a special dark red filter (designed for infrared photography). More on this project in a future post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter passing an old Tobacco Barn in the Connecticut River flood plain north of Northampton, Massachusetts. Sunday, June 25, 2017, Amtrak\u2019s mobile App indicated that train No. 54, the Sunday Vermonter had departed Northampton about 7 minutes past the advertised. Tim suggested we try the location pictured here (right off Massachusetts Route 5). It\u2019s … Continue reading Vermonter north of Northampton, Massachusetts (and a hint of something to come).<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18784,"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":[4249,31,1490,1481],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Amtrak_54_Vermonter_Tabacco_barn_Hatfield_DSCF6119.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BVuC-18786","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786"}],"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=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18801,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions\/18801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}