{"id":27204,"date":"2019-06-27T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27204"},"modified":"2019-06-27T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T11:33:58","slug":"csx-early-morning-intermodal-five-views-and-the-spirit-of-ravenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-early-morning-intermodal-five-views-and-the-spirit-of-ravenna\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX: Early Morning Intermodal\u2014five views and the Spirit of Ravenna."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"279\" data-attachment-id=\"27205\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-early-morning-intermodal-five-views-and-the-spirit-of-ravenna\/csx_970_w_stack_train_at_palmer_ma_mod1_dscf8827\/\" 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This transmission indicated that a train was about to take the controlled siding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern six-motor GEs (an Evolution and a Tier IV\u2014standard CSX road power on the Boston Line) rolled east with a short intermodal train, probably Q012 or Q022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4896\" height=\"3264\" data-attachment-id=\"27211\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-early-morning-intermodal-five-views-and-the-spirit-of-ravenna\/csx_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_palmer_ma_trailing_dscf8829\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&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=\"CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?w=4896 4896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_and_3440_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_trailing_DSCF8829.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trailing locomotive was CSX\u2019s Louisville &amp; Nashville heritage locomotive, identified by a tiny L&amp;N logo on the cab and \u2018Spirit of Ravenna\u2019 in script. Lucky bonus to catch that in Palmer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made my&nbsp;photos at the west end of the yard, working with a FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm telephoto lens and my Lumix LX7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was just the beginning of the morning\u2019s photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#1212d8;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Morning  (June 25 2019), I made my way to Palmer, Massachusetts to see how fared the old Boston &#038; Albany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27205,"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":[4820,4537,5774,35,7535,1317,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CSX_970_w_stack_train_at_Palmer_MA_mod1_DSCF8827.jpg?fit=4896%2C2882","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-74M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204"}],"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=27204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27212,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions\/27212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}