{"id":24129,"date":"2019-02-28T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=24129"},"modified":"2019-02-28T05:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:28:35","slug":"new-england-central-and-the-coast-guard-eagle-new-london-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-england-central-and-the-coast-guard-eagle-new-london-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Central and the Coast Guard Eagle\u2014New London, Connecticut."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>Mike Gardner and I made an epic chase of New England Central freight 608 on Halloween Day 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among my favorite views from that day is this color slide exposed from a footbridge along the Thames River at New London, Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24130\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-england-central-and-the-coast-guard-eagle-new-london-connecticut\/necr_608_9533_w_608_at_new_london_ct_oct31_1997briansolomon592555\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?fit=1287%2C872\" data-orig-size=\"1287,872\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1546959704&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=\"NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?fit=709%2C480\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?fit=474%2C321\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?resize=474%2C321\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24130\" width=\"474\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?w=1287 1287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?resize=709%2C480 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?resize=1022%2C692 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the distance is US Coast Guard training ship&nbsp;<em>Eagle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later I stood on the deck of the&nbsp;<em>Eagle<\/em>at the Irish port of Cobh in County Cork, having arrived by train from Cork city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight, February 28, 2019 at 730pm, I\u2019ll be giving an old school slide show to the Irish Railway Record Society, located opposite the Heuston Station car park in Dublin. Among my featured railroads will be New England Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/irishrailarchives.ie\/index.php\/meetings\/upcoming\/\">http:\/\/irishrailarchives.ie\/index.php\/meetings\/upcoming\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gardner and I made an epic chase of New England Central freight 608 on Halloween Day 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24130,"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":[5365,5367,5363,4537,5366,7535,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NECR_608_9533_w_608_at_New_London_Ct_Oct31_1997\u00a9BrianSolomon592555.jpg?fit=1287%2C872","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129"}],"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=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24131,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions\/24131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}