{"id":31168,"date":"2021-05-10T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31168"},"modified":"2021-05-10T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T22:27:42","slug":"my-interview-on-emd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/my-interview-on-emd\/","title":{"rendered":"My Interview on EMD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, May 9, 2021, Richard Luckin of Luckin Productions traveled to North Conway, NH., to interview me about General Motors Electro-Motive Division diesels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave him and his production crew a tour of the railroad&#8217;s facilities and spoke about our selection of EMD diesels, then answered a variety of questions about the role of EMD, the success of its locomotives, and other historical queries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the course of the interview, Conway Scenic&#8217;s Valley train was coming and going, led by locomotive  573\u2014an EMD GP7 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