{"id":21515,"date":"2018-07-06T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21515"},"modified":"2018-06-25T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:19:05","slug":"three-years-ago-today-new-england-central-at-belchertown-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/three-years-ago-today-new-england-central-at-belchertown-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Years Ago Today: New England Central at Belchertown, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was July 6, 2015, three years ago, that Paul Goewey and I photographed New England Central at Springfield Street in Belchertown, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Our vantage point is from the old Central Massachusetts Railroad right of way\u2014a line that was abandoned in the early 1930s, when Boston &amp; Maine obtained trackage rights over the parallel Central Vermont (now New England Central) line.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21516\" style=\"width: 3456px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21516\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/three-years-ago-today-new-england-central-at-belchertown-massachusetts\/necr_611_w_csor_3771_springfield_st_in_belchertown_dscf1961\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?fit=3456%2C2304\" data-orig-size=\"3456,2304\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1436193557&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&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=\"NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On this Day, July 6, 2012, I caught Connecticut Southern 3771 leading the southward New England Central 611 at Springfield Street in Belchertown, Massachusetts. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?w=3456 3456w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On this Day, July 6, 2015, I caught Connecticut Southern 3771 leading the southward New England Central 611 at Springfield Street in Belchertown, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made this view using my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Everyday!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was July 6, 2015, three years ago, that Paul Goewey and I photographed New England Central at Springfield Street in Belchertown, Massachusetts. Our vantage point is from the old Central Massachusetts Railroad right of way\u2014a line that was abandoned in the early 1930s, when Boston &amp; Maine obtained trackage rights over the parallel Central &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/three-years-ago-today-new-england-central-at-belchertown-massachusetts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Years Ago Today: New England Central at Belchertown, Massachusetts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21516,"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":[2498,1067,7535,104,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_611_w_CSOR_3771_Springfield_St_in_Belchertown_DSCF1961.jpg?fit=3456%2C2304","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5B1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515"}],"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=21515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21517,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions\/21517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}