{"id":32014,"date":"2021-10-03T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32014"},"modified":"2021-10-02T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T02:12:52","slug":"slug-set-at-rices-february-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/slug-set-at-rices-february-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Slug Set at Rices\u2014February 1985."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In February 1985, my old pal TSH and I made a big adventure of chasing Guilford&#8217;s GP40-2 slug set (300-100-301) that was leading a westward empty coal train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We picked this train up at East Deerfield Yard (near Greenfield, Massachusetts) and followed it west toward the Hoosac Tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TSH drove, I navigated and when we stopped line side, I made black &amp; white photos using my Leica IIIA loaded with Ilford FP4 that I&#8217;d bulk loaded into reusable cassettes from a 100ft roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed this view at the Rices interlocking along the Deerfield River near Charlemont, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, this scene is very much overgrown, and the interlocking is long gone. 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