{"id":18983,"date":"2017-07-30T05:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T09:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2017-07-24T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T03:16:09","slug":"day-and-night-at-cp83-in-palmer-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/day-and-night-at-cp83-in-palmer-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Day and Night at CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

All to often I find myself in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably not what you think though.<\/p>\n

Yes, I make railway photos there.<\/p>\n

By often I arrive at CP83 only because I\u2019m passing through. I might be on the way to the bank, or to get a haircut, or maybe do a bit of shopping.<\/p>\n

In the daylight instance pictured I was about to cross the South Main Street Bridge with a financial transaction in mind, when I spotted a railway enthusiast poised with camera in hand.<\/p>\n

I had my Lumix LX7 with me, so made a quick diversion. It was nearly 11am, and about the time that CSX\u2019s Q022 often rolls east. Stepping out of the car, I immediately sensed that my guess was correct. I could hear the freight approaching the home signal for the Palmer diamond at CP83. Need I describe what happened next?<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 view of CSX’s Q022 passing CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts. (CP83 is the railroad location-name \u00a0for the interlocking in Palmer, which is just over 83 miles west of Boston South Station.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Less than 12 hours after the daylight view I made this photo of the signals at CP83 illuminated by the headlight of westward intermodal freight Q007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It helps to have a tripod.
CSX Q007 rolls westward at CP83 in Palmer; at the right is the popular Steaming Tender restaurant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some hours later, I\u2019d met Rich and Joyce Reed for dinner in Palmer, and as per a long standing Friday night tradition we reconvened after the meal at CP83. How different this place looks at night!<\/p>\n

After a little while the signals cleared and CSX\u2019s Q007 came into view. I made these time exposures of the westward Q007 passing the signals at CP83.<\/p>\n

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All to often I find myself in Palmer, Massachusetts. It\u2019s probably not what you think though. Yes, I make railway photos there. By often I arrive at CP83 only because I\u2019m passing through. I might be on the way to the bank, or to get a haircut, or maybe do a bit of shopping. In … Continue reading Day and Night at CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18982,"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],"tags":[887,35,535,30,292],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CSX_Q022_CP83_Palmer_P1660531.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983"}],"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=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18984,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions\/18984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}