{"id":28444,"date":"2020-01-08T06:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28444"},"modified":"2020-01-07T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T04:24:25","slug":"vintage-new-england-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vintage-new-england-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage New England Central!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New England Central from 24 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 5, 1996, I exposed a series of Kodachrome 25 color slides of New England Central 9529 switching at Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The railroad later renumbered its engines from the 9500-series to the 3800-series, but in 2020 a few of its now geriatric GP38s still work the line in the 1995-era Conrail-applied New England Central start-up paint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28445\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vintage-new-england-central\/necr_9529_palmer_ma_feb5_1996_kmbrian_solomon_540055\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?fit=3600%2C2372\" data-orig-size=\"3600,2372\" 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=\"NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?fit=709%2C467\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?fit=474%2C312\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?resize=474%2C312\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28445\" width=\"474\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?w=3600 3600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?resize=709%2C467 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?resize=1022%2C673 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>K25 exposed with a Nikon F3T fitted with an f4 Nikkor 200mm telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 years in the same blue and yellow scheme. While not a world record, it is still pretty impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0e00a3;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5, 1996, I exposed a series of Kodachrome 25 color slides of New England Central 9529 switching at Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28445,"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":[5188,5756,5186,5047,5044],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NECR_9529_Palmer_MA_Feb5_1996_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_540055.jpg?fit=3600%2C2372","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444"}],"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=28444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28447,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions\/28447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}