{"id":28789,"date":"2020-03-09T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28789"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:10:42","slug":"bright-morning-in-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bright-morning-in-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Morning in Palmer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For more than 25 years, New England Central\u2019s gold and navy GP38s have worked the former Central Vermont line. These have been a common site around the railroad\u2019s Palmer, Massachusetts hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought of that bitterly cold February 1995 morning when I made my first New England Central photos as I exposed these views last week under decidedly more pleasant conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28790\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bright-morning-in-palmer\/necr_608_and_ups_palmer_dscf9395\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NECR_608_and_UPS_Palmer_DSCF9395.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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\/><figcaption>New England Central&#8217;s 608 with GP38 3854 at Palmer, Massachusetts in March 2020. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28791\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bright-morning-in-palmer\/necr_3845_608_palmer_dscf9398\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NECR_3845_608_Palmer_DSCF9398.jpg?fit=3264%2C4896\" data-orig-size=\"3264,4896\" 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;}\" 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