{"id":29709,"date":"2020-09-01T07:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29709"},"modified":"2020-09-01T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T11:10:23","slug":"odd-couple-at-springfield-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/odd-couple-at-springfield-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Couple at Springfield Station."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In July 1984, I was only a few weeks out of High School. My Pal TSH and I were on one of our photography adventures. Bob Buck of Tucker’s Hobbies in Warren, Massachusetts had alerted us to the fact that Amtrak’s southward Montrealer<\/em> had suffered a locomotive failure, and had been brought down by a borrowed Canadian National M-420.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time seeing a Canadian National locomotive in Springfield was an event, and the M-420s were a rare catch. Over the coming years CN M-420s would become increasingly common on the Central Vermont, but that was in the future and at this time I was very keen to catch this rare bird in home territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made this photo of the foreigner on track 2A at the east end of Springfield Union Station (Massachusetts) along side a row of Amtrak \/CDOT Budd-built SPV2000s that were assigned to work the Springfield-Hartford-New Haven shuttle service in the early\/mid 1980s. The SPVs would only survive on this run for another couple of years and were relative rare machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1984,I made this photo of a CN M-420 on track 2A at the east end of Springfield Union Station (Massachusetts) along side a row of Amtrak Budd-built SPV2000s that were assigned to work the Springfield-Hartford-New Haven shuttle service in the early\/mid 1980s. (Click on TRACKING THE LIGHT to learn more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":[6070,5034,6068,5283,4364],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SPV_and_M420_at_Springfield_Station_July_1984_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53600140-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1556","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709"}],"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=29709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29712,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions\/29712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}