{"id":20015,"date":"2017-12-17T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2017-12-17T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T14:22:56","slug":"searchlight-sunset-at-athol-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/searchlight-sunset-at-athol-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Searchlight Sunset at Athol, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some views I made the other evening at Tyters interlocking, west of Athol, Massachusetts, where the old Boston & Maine Fitchburg goes from two to one track westbound.<\/p>\n

Intermodal train symbol 23K from Ayer, Massachusetts was heading into the sun.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years Pan Am Railways\/Pan Am Southern has replaced many of its old General Railway Signal searchlight heads with modern signal hardware. Yet some of the old signals survive, for now.<\/p>\n

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Image exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with 18-135mm set at 66mm, (making this equivalent to a 100mm lens on a traditional 35mm film camera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Searchlight hardware has been out of favor since the 1990s and in recent years have been replaced at rapid rates. I\u2019d composed an editorial on this subject for Pacific RailNews back in 1996.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here are some views I made the other evening at Tyters interlocking, west of Athol, Massachusetts, where the old Boston & Maine Fitchburg goes from two to one track westbound. Intermodal train symbol 23K from Ayer, Massachusetts was heading into the sun. Over the last few years Pan Am Railways\/Pan Am Southern has replaced many … Continue reading Searchlight Sunset at Athol, Massachusetts.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20016,"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":[4476,4537,474,2499,1818,52,33],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NS_23K_Tyters_at_Athol_MA_trailing_glint_DSCF2534.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5cP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015"}],"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=20015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20018,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions\/20018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}