{"id":23981,"date":"2019-02-17T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23981"},"modified":"2019-02-17T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:21:46","slug":"mass-central-at-palmer-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mass-central-at-palmer-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass-Central at Palmer, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In theory, on any given weekday you ought to be able to make a representative photograph of Mass-Central\u2019s local freight arriving in Palmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This goes on duty in the morning at Mass-Central\u2019s Palmer yard, makes its run up the Ware River Valley and returns, typically dropping its interchange for CSX and New England Central at CSX\u2019s former Boston & Albany yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, catching a locomotive with the cab-facing south and at the correct end of the train can be more difficult. It\u2019s luck of the draw to get the locomotive facing south. And for operational reasons, the locomotive may be placed in the middle or at the end of the interchange when passing the old Palmer Union Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was lucky a couple of weeks ago, when I made this view at CP83 with Mass-Central GP38-2 1750 leading the train. All that\u2019s missing is the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed with a FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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