{"id":22622,"date":"2018-10-25T08:07:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:12:40","slug":"on-this-day-in-1996-conrail-sd80macs-work-the-boston-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-in-1996-conrail-sd80macs-work-the-boston-albany\/","title":{"rendered":"On this Day in 1996\u2014Conrail SD80MACs Work the Boston &#038; Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of October 25, 1996, my brother Sean and I had hiked to the established overlook west of milepost 123 near Middlefield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The roar of EMD 20-Cylinder 710 diesels announced the passage of a westward freight with two of the relatively new Conrail SD80MACs.<\/p>\n<p>I exposed this view using my Nikon F3T.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22623\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-in-1996-conrail-sd80macs-work-the-boston-albany\/cr-sd80macs-w-wb-at-mp129-3-west-of-chester-ma-oct-25-96-brian-solomon-205386\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?fit=3491%2C2291\" data-orig-size=\"3491,2291\" 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=\"CR SD80MACs w wb at mp129.3 west of Chester MA Oct 25 96 Brian Solomon 205386\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?fit=709%2C465\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?fit=474%2C311\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?resize=474%2C311\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?w=3491 3491w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?resize=709%2C465 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?resize=1022%2C671 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of October 25, 1996, my brother Sean and I had hiked to the established overlook west of milepost 123 near Middlefield, Massachusetts. The roar of EMD 20-Cylinder 710 diesels announced the passage of a westward freight with two of the relatively new Conrail SD80MACs. I exposed this view using my Nikon F3T. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-in-1996-conrail-sd80macs-work-the-boston-albany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On this Day in 1996\u2014Conrail SD80MACs Work the Boston &#038; Albany<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22624,"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":[53,1265],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CR-SD80MACs-w-wb-at-mp129.3-west-of-Chester-MA-Oct-25-96-Brian-Solomon-205386-1.jpg?fit=3491%2C2291","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5SS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622"}],"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=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22625,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions\/22625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}