{"id":23402,"date":"2019-01-04T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23402"},"modified":"2019-01-01T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:11:07","slug":"new-haven-on-new-years-eve-it-aint-pretty-but-its-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-haven-on-new-years-eve-it-aint-pretty-but-its-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven on New Years Eve\u2014It Ain\u2019t Pretty, but it\u2019s busy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Many years ago, my old pal T.S. Hoover and I would make a project of photographing the old New Haven Railroad during the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past New Years Eve (December 31 2018), I maintained this tradition, although that wasn\u2019t my intent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was transferring from Amtrak 405 from Springfield to Amtrak 195 from Boston. Let\u2019s just say the Boston train wasn\u2019t holding to the advertised and I had ample time to wander around and make photographs of the passing action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Haven isn\u2019t pretty,\u00a0\u00a0high level platforms combined with a plethora of poles, catenary masts, catenary, signs, garbage, stray wires and other visual clutter hasn\u2019t improved this classic setting, but there\u2019s a great variety of equipment on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shoreline East lurking on left, CT Rail Hartford Line on right; FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CT Rail Hartford Line train. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shoreline East train with a former Amtrak P40 at the back departs eastward for Old Saybrook. FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Metro North M8s on left, old M2s on the right. FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No GG1s, RDCs, FL9s, E8s or other relics that made this a fascinating place when I was a teenager. For that matter there weren\u2019t any E60s, AEM-7s, F40s or SPV-2000s either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boston-bound Acela\u00a0Express.\u00a0<\/em>Lumix\u00a0LX7\u00a0photo.<\/em>

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Boston-bound Acela\u00a0Express.\u00a0<\/em>FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.

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And finally, train 195! Hooray! Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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