{"id":26601,"date":"2019-05-04T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26601"},"modified":"2019-05-04T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:50:04","slug":"cross-lit-crossing-the-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cross-lit-crossing-the-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-lit Crossing the Connecticut."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late April, after an interlude to photograph Amtrak 56, the northward\u00a0Vermonter,\u00a0<\/em>Mike Gardner and I resumed our photo chase of New England Central\u2019s northbound 611 (Brattleboro, VT to Palmer, Massachusetts and return), that would soon follow Amtrak\u2019s train on it way north toward Brattleboro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived at the west end of the old Central Vermont Railway bridge over the Connecticut River (near the junction with Pan Am\u2019s Boston & Maine at East Northfield) shortly before the freight crossed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike assumed a position at the classic location on the south side of the bridge, while I improvised with a view on the north side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why photograph from the \u2018dark side\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this instance, I feel that the north side of the bridge offers a superior view of the setting, while cross lighting the train adds a sense of drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm telephoto.


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Lumix LX7 photo.


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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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We arrived at the west end of the old Central Vermont Railway bridge over the Connecticut River (near the junction at East Northfield) shortly before NECR’s Northward 611 crossed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[10,48],"tags":[4755,4537,7535,104,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/NECR_3474_nb_leading_611_over-Connecticut_River_at_East_Northfield_MA_DSCF5899.jpg?fit=1200%2C800","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6V3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26601"}],"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=26601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26605,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26601\/revisions\/26605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}