{"id":30306,"date":"2020-12-03T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:38:37","slug":"boston-maines-slug-set-on-the-west-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/boston-maines-slug-set-on-the-west-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston & Maine\u2019s Slug Set on the West End."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Much to my disappointment, When I told my non-railroad friends that \u2018I caught the B&M Slug Set on the road,\u2019 they didn\u2019t match my enthusiasm. (1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on June 29, 1986, my pal TSH and I made a morning project of chasing Guilford\u2019s AYRP (Ayer, Massachusetts to Rouses Point, New York) from East Deerfield Yard to the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We caught this at Wisdom Way in Greenfield, then near Buckland west of Shelburne Falls, then at 10:30am, we caught up to AYRP when it was held for an eastbound at Rices interlocking near Charlemont. Here, I made several photos on Kodak 120 Professional Tri-X using my dad\u2019s Rolleiflex Model T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I scanned these negatives the other day. Most had never been printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buckland, Massachusetts, June 29, 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rices, near Charlemont.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rices, near Charlemont, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Footnote 1. A slug set is a locomotive arrangement where by a powered diesel is coupled with a heavily weighted unpowered unit fitted with traction motors for additional tractive power. Boston & Maine built one such combination where a pair of GP40-2s powered a homemade ‘slug.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much to my disappointment, When I told my non-railroad friends that \u2018I caught the B&M Slug Set on the road,\u2019 they didn\u2019t match my enthusiasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30307,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5037,6375,6373,6570],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Buckland_\u00a9BrianSolomon_582497.jpg?fit=2000%2C1484","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7SO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306"}],"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=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30310,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions\/30310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}