{"id":20424,"date":"2018-02-19T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20424"},"modified":"2018-02-19T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:59:48","slug":"this-day-12-years-ago-an-old-gp9-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/this-day-12-years-ago-an-old-gp9-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day 12 Years Ago\u2014An old GP9 on the Move."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day (February 19, 2006), I exposed this photo of Guilford\u2019s \u2018Sappi Job\u2019 at Fairfield, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead is an old Boston &amp; Maine GP9 that had been built in 1957 using some trade-in components from World War-II era FT diesels.<\/p>\n<p>I was traveling with Don Marson and Brian Jennison and exposed this view on Fujichrome with a Nikon F3 with 180mm lens.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I was making use of that same lens to photograph Ireland\u2019s Bord na Mona narrow gauge railways.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20423\" style=\"width: 1744px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20423\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/this-day-12-years-ago-an-old-gp9-on-the-move\/brian-solomon_337578\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?fit=1744%2C1146\" data-orig-size=\"1744,1146\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brian Solomon_337578\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On the morning of February 19, 2006 (12 years ago today) Guilford Rail System GP9 51 leads the &#8216;Sappi Job&#8217; off the old Maine Central Hinckley Branch at Fairfield, Maine on its way toward Waterville. Note the vintage GRS searchlight to the right of the locomotive. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?fit=709%2C466\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?fit=474%2C312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?resize=474%2C311\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?w=1744 1744w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?resize=709%2C466 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?resize=1022%2C672 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the morning of February 19, 2006 (12 years ago today) Guilford Rail System GP9 51 leads the &#8216;Sappi Job&#8217; off the old Maine Central Hinckley Branch at Fairfield, Maine on its way toward Waterville. Note the vintage GRS searchlight to the right of the locomotive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tracking the Light Posts Every Day.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day (February 19, 2006), I exposed this photo of Guilford\u2019s \u2018Sappi Job\u2019 at Fairfield, Maine. In the lead is an old Boston &amp; Maine GP9 that had been built in 1957 using some trade-in components from World War-II era FT diesels. I was traveling with Don Marson and Brian Jennison and exposed this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/this-day-12-years-ago-an-old-gp9-on-the-move\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Day 12 Years Ago\u2014An old GP9 on the Move.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20423,"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":[4562,4537,4561,4563,1036,1755,1138,1768,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brian-Solomon_337578.jpg?fit=1744%2C1146","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424"}],"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=20424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20425,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions\/20425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}