{"id":28459,"date":"2020-01-13T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28459"},"modified":"2020-01-11T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T23:48:01","slug":"conrail-6619-on-the-boston-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-6619-on-the-boston-albany\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail 6619 on the Boston & Albany."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I made this image while hiking the line toward Middlefield, Massachusetts from Chester. The freight was descending the grade near where the 1912-line relocation joined the original Western Rail Road alignment (seen to the left of Conrail 6619) at milepost 129 (as measured from Boston\u2019s South Station).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Conrail\u2019s ten General Electric C32-8s were delivered in September 1984 and in their early years largely work out of Selkirk Yard on the old Boston & Albany route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GE assigned these unique pre-production DASH8\u00a0\u00a0prototypes to Conrail for evaluation in preparation for wide-scale DASH-8 production that began a few years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had countless encounters with the C32-8s on the Boston & Albany during the mid-1980s, but never had the opportunity to travel on one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later this year Kalmbach Media will release my new book titled Conrail and its Predecessors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

See my blog Tracking the Light for full story: I had countless encounters with the C32-8s on the Boston & Albany during the mid-1980s, but never had the opportunity to travel on one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28460,"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":[5043,6102,5128,6103,6044,4537,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Conrail_6619_at-mp126_April1985_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_538873.jpg?fit=3600%2C1997","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7p1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28459"}],"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=28459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28461,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28459\/revisions\/28461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}