{"id":29854,"date":"2020-09-21T07:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29854"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:18:32","slug":"curious-cement-cars-7-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/curious-cement-cars-7-new-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"CUrious Cement Cars-7 new photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the title, I’m using curious as adjective to mean ‘unusual’ for alliterative effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, September 19, 2020, Kris Sabbatino and I briefly visited Rockland, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years ago I’d photographed the short freight turn that brings cement from the Dragon cement works in Thomaston to a rail-barge transload on the Rockland waterfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was curious if this operation was still running, so after a visit to inspect the Rockland roundhouse (still standing, still housing a locomotive), we followed the short branch that meanders through the neighborhoods down to the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we found a selection of the unusual pressurized cement cars used in the cement circuit. The wheels were shiny, so I we concluded the service still operates. Perhaps one of these days we’ll return to catch it on the move again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I exposed these photos using my FujiFilm XT1.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click on Tracking the Light to see a few recent photos of unusual pressurized cement cars used in the Thomaston-Rockland cement circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29861,"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":[6474,5426,6476,5221,6475,4859],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Tracks_at_Rockland_Harbor_DSCF4248-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7Lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854"}],"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=29854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29863,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions\/29863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}