{"id":20141,"date":"2018-01-05T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20141"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:05:04","slug":"retro-local-freight-csx-b740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/retro-local-freight-csx-b740\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Local Freight\u2014CSX B740"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the early 1980s, Conrail routinely assigned GP40-2s to road freights on the Boston & Albany. Back then I ignorantly dismissed the GP40-2s as \u2018boring\u2019. (But, I made photos anyway).<\/p>\n

Today, being older and wiser and having a greater appreciation for locomotives of all kinds, I look back fondly on those olden times.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I don\u2019t have to go too far to find GP40s on the move. CSX still assigns vintage GP40-2s (albeit modernized) to the Palmer, Massachusetts local freight, symbol B740. (On the old Boston & Albany).<\/p>\n

I see these locomotives as classics, yet still earning their keep, and wearing modern paint.<\/p>\n

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Exposed digitally; metered manually, ISO 400, f7.1 at 1\/500th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Telephoto view of CSX B740 at CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week when I exposed these views of CSX B740 at CP83 near the old Palmer Station, it was bright, but partly overcast midday with diffused high sun. Snow on the ground helps lighten the shadows\u2014Decent, if not perfect, conditions for photographing locomotives.<\/p>\n

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Back in the early 1980s, Conrail routinely assigned GP40-2s to road freights on the Boston & Albany. Back then I ignorantly dismissed the GP40-2s as \u2018boring\u2019. (But, I made photos anyway). Today, being older and wiser and having a greater appreciation for locomotives of all kinds, I look back fondly on those olden times. Luckily, … Continue reading Retro Local Freight\u2014CSX B740<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20139,"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":[3768,4507,41,35,3443],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CSX_6204_w_B740_DSCF3149.jpg?fit=1701%2C1176","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141"}],"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=20141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20142,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141\/revisions\/20142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}