{"id":31090,"date":"2021-04-26T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2021-04-26T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:06:38","slug":"ballast-train-at-west-barnstable-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ballast-train-at-west-barnstable-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballast Train at West Barnstable, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kris Sabbatino and I were very lucky to catch a relative unusual move on Cape Cod last Friday (April 23, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass Coastal&#8217;s rare EMD GP28 (road number 2009) led a train of MassDOT ballast cars eastward on the former New Haven Railroad at West Barnstable, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was delighted to catch this unusual locomotive (one of less than three dozen built) in good sunlight. In addition to this digital photo exposed using my Nikon Z6, I also made a sequence of color slides with my Canon EOS 3 with 100-400mm lens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"322\" data-attachment-id=\"31092\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ballast-train-at-west-barnstable-massachusetts\/mass_coastal_gp28_2009__w_balast_at_west_barnstable_ma_dsc_4503-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C680\" data-orig-size=\"1000,680\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1619195069&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?fit=709%2C482\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?fit=474%2C322\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?resize=474%2C322\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?resize=709%2C482 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Mass Coastal at West Barnstable, Mass. April 23, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#004da3\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Coastal&#8217;s rare GP28 (road number 2009) led a train of MassDot ballast cars eastward on the former New Haven Railroad at West Barnstable, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31092,"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":[6581,6768,4834,5300,6767],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mass_Coastal_GP28_2009__w_Balast_at_West_Barnstable_MA_DSC_4503-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C680","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-85s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090"}],"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=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31108,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions\/31108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}