{"id":21085,"date":"2018-05-04T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21085"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:17:51","slug":"east-northfield-massachusetts-a-junction-a-tunnel-motor-a-searchlight-and-three-quarter-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/east-northfield-massachusetts-a-junction-a-tunnel-motor-a-searchlight-and-three-quarter-light\/","title":{"rendered":"East Northfield, Massachusetts: a Junction; a Tunnel Motor; A Searchlight and Three Quarter Light."},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, the view from the road bridge at East Northfield, Massachusetts was more open than it is today.<\/p>\n

The trees have grown up making it more challenging to expose photos of trains at the junction between former Boston & Maine and former Central Vermont lines here.<\/p>\n

At one time, a century or more ago, B&M\u2019s Conn River route crossed the CV here. B&M\u2019s line continued across the Connecticut River and rejoined the CV at Brattleboro.<\/p>\n

Later, the two routes were melded in a paired track arrangement. However, by the time I started photographing here in the 1980s, the B&M route north of East Northfield was no longer functioning as a through line.<\/p>\n

On the morning of April 27, 2018, I made this view of New England Central freight 608 led by a former Southern Pacific SD40T-2 \u2018tunnel motor\u2019 diesel.<\/p>\n

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New England Central 611 approaches the junction at East Northfield, Massachusetts. The lead locomotives have just crossed the Vermont-Massachusetts state line. The old Boston & Maine line once continued to the right of the present NECR alignment (and to the left of the dirt road), running northward across the Connecticut River and beyond via Dole Junction, New Hampshire toward Brattleboro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The light was spot on for a series of three quarter views featuring a vintage GRS searchlight signal that protects the junction.<\/p>\n

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Perfect morning light makes for a calendar view from the road bridge at the junction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NECR 611 continues south toward Palmer, Massachusetts on the old Central Vermont Railway, the old Boston & Maine route diverges to the left toward Greenfield and Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Years ago, the view from the road bridge at East Northfield, Massachusetts was more open than it is today. The trees have grown up making it more challenging to expose photos of trains at the junction between former Boston & Maine and former Central Vermont lines here. At one time, a century or more ago, … Continue reading East Northfield, Massachusetts: a Junction; a Tunnel Motor; A Searchlight and Three Quarter Light.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21083,"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":[4320,1067,3039,7535,854,81,2842],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NECR_611_southward_East_Northfield_MA_close_DSCF7382.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5u5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085"}],"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=21085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21086,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085\/revisions\/21086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}