{"id":20020,"date":"2017-12-18T05:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20020"},"modified":"2017-12-17T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T17:13:35","slug":"csx-near-washington-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-near-washington-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX near Washington Summit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western RailRoad of Massachusetts; Boston &amp; Albany; New York Central System; Penn Central; Conrail; CSX.<\/p>\n<p>CSX is the current operator of the Boston &amp; Albany route.<\/p>\n<p>I made this photo earlier this month of train Q263 westbound\u00a0at Muddy Pond approaching Washington Summit .<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20019\" style=\"width: 1732px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20019\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-near-washington-summit\/csx_q263_at_muddy_pond_washington_ma_dscf2594\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155\" data-orig-size=\"1732,1155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1512655731&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm XT1 with 18-135mm Fujinon zoom lens.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20019\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?w=1732 1732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm XT1 with 18-135mm Fujinon zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent years CSX freight volumes over the B&amp;A route have been declining.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday (December 16, 2017), we learned that Hunter Harrison, CSX\u2019s Chief Executive Officer passed away.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but wonder what will become of the B&amp;A, and how Hunter\u2019s controversial strategies have affected this route in the few months he was at the reigns of CSX.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Every Day.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western RailRoad of Massachusetts; Boston &amp; Albany; New York Central System; Penn Central; Conrail; CSX. CSX is the current operator of the Boston &amp; Albany route. I made this photo earlier this month of train Q263 westbound\u00a0at Muddy Pond approaching Washington Summit . In recent years CSX freight volumes over the B&amp;A route have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-near-washington-summit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSX near Washington Summit.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20019,"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":[4477,4537,41,35,104,3009],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CSX_Q263_at_Muddy_Pond_Washington_MA_DSCF2594.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5cU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020"}],"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=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20023,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions\/20023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}