{"id":23960,"date":"2019-02-16T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:46:45","slug":"east-deerfield-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/east-deerfield-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"East Deerfield Classic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>There\u2019s only a handful of locomotives left operational in the classic Guilford paint scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classic? Yes, this livery has been worn by New England locomotives for more than 35 years. So the other day, when I saw Maine Central 305 working the west end of East Deerfield, I thought it made for a great photo in the year 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first time I saw a locomotive in this paint scheme on the Boston &amp; Maine was back in 1983, and that was from the windows of a Mystic Valley excursion to the Hoosac Tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23961\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/east-deerfield-classic\/mec_305_at_east_deerfield_p1040675\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?fit=1287%2C965\" data-orig-size=\"1287,965\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1549462510&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;17.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The first time I saw a locomotive in this paint scheme on the Boston &#038; Maine was back in 1983&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?fit=709%2C532\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?fit=474%2C355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23961\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?w=1287 1287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?resize=200%2C150 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?resize=709%2C532 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?resize=1022%2C766 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MEC_305_at_East_Deerfield_P1040675.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>I made this view using my Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Hard to believe the old Boston &amp; Maine yard tower still stands too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take nothing for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Observes Daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw a locomotive in this paint scheme on the Boston &#038; Maine was back in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960"}],"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=23960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23962,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions\/23962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}