{"id":21201,"date":"2018-05-21T06:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21201"},"modified":"2018-05-20T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:04:41","slug":"east-deerfield-west-providence-worcester-2009-leads-the-plainville-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/east-deerfield-west-providence-worcester-2009-leads-the-plainville-job\/","title":{"rendered":"East Deerfield West: Providence & Worcester 2009 leads the Plainville Job."},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1982, Boston & Maine bought several routes in Massachusetts and Connecticut from Conrail. Among these were lines clustered around Plainville, Connecticut, accessed via trackage rights over Amtrak\u2019s Springfield-New Haven Line.<\/p>\n

Today, Amtrak\u2019s route requires advanced signaling on leading locomotives and only a handful of Pan Am\u2019s engines are so equipped. As a result, Pan Am sometimes operates a borrowed Providence & Worcester engine on its East Deerfield to Plainville freight.<\/p>\n

As of last week, Pan Am\u2019s EDPL was still operating on a daylight schedule, however with increased Springfield-New Haven passenger services to commence in June, this operation may become nocturnal.<\/p>\n

I made these views from the old McClelland Farm Road bridge, a vantage point that will soon be gone when the new bridge opens.<\/p>\n

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Looking east from the old McClelland Farm Road Bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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EDPL prepares to cross over to access the East Deerfield Loop that connects with the Connecticut River line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 1982, Boston & Maine bought several routes in Massachusetts and Connecticut from Conrail. Among these were lines clustered around Plainville, Connecticut, accessed via trackage rights over Amtrak\u2019s Springfield-New Haven Line. Today, Amtrak\u2019s route requires advanced signaling on leading locomotives and only a handful of Pan Am\u2019s engines are so equipped. As a result, Pan … Continue reading East Deerfield West: Providence & Worcester 2009 leads the Plainville Job.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21204,"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":[4692,891,241,7535,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pan_Am_EDPL_w_PW_2009_East_Deerfield_Yard_DSCF8478-1.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5vX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201"}],"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=21201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21205,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions\/21205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}