{"id":26870,"date":"2019-05-23T05:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26870"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:52:34","slug":"meet-at-the-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/meet-at-the-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet at the Diamond!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Conrail\u2019s SBSE (South Braintree to Selkirk) works west as Central Vermont local 561 waits to cross the Palmer diamond on the morning of June 25, 1985. This was 13 months before Conrail single-tracked its former Boston & Albany between Palmer and Springfield.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Or should I say ‘A diamond meet’? This slide sat for more than 33 years in a box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of exposure it didn\u2019t seem remarkable; just a back lit view of Conrail B23-7s and Central Vermont Railway GP9s at the Palmer, Massachusetts diamond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a common every day occurrence and the locomotives were among the most frequently seen in the Palmer area in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t have the best lens and my exposures were lacking refinement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrail\u2019s SBSE (South Braintree to Selkirk) works west as Central Vermont local 561 waits to cross the Palmer diamond on the morning of June 25, 1985. This was 13 months before Conrail single-tracked its former Boston & Albany between Palmer and Springfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adjusted version of the above scan; color and contrast corrected for internet viewing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

just a back lit view of Conrail B23-7s and Central Vermont Railway GP9s at the Palmer, Massachusetts diamond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26872,"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],"tags":[4537,41,111,53,7535,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Adjusted_Conrail\u2014SBSE-South-Braintree-to-Selkirk_works-west_as_Central_Vermont_local_561_waits_to_cross_the_Palmer_diamond_on_June_25_-1985\u00a9BrianSolomon_593108-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C675","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6Zo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870"}],"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=26870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26873,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870\/revisions\/26873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}