{"id":32681,"date":"2022-01-16T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32681"},"modified":"2022-01-15T23:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T04:05:20","slug":"back-end-of-an-odd-locomotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/back-end-of-an-odd-locomotive\/","title":{"rendered":"Back End of an Odd Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Electro-Motive Division’s BL2 was one of the strangest looking diesels of the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On my visit to Bangor & Aroostook’s Northern Maine Junction yard (near Bangor, Maine) in July 1983, I made a variety of photos of stored diesels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the time, most of Bangor & Aroostook’s BL2 and F3 fleet was out of service. I was fascinated by these antiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my Leica 3A, I made this study of the rear-end of BL2 number 55 surrounded by other stored diesels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although bizarre in appearance, EMD’s BL2 was mechanically and electrically very similar to the model F3,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On my visit to Bangor & Aroostook’s Northern Maine Junction yard (near Bangor, Maine) in July 1983, I made a variety of photos of stored diesels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32683,"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":[6646,7065,7066,5260,6115,6647,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/\u00a9BrianSolomon442705.jpg?fit=1500%2C967","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32681"}],"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=32681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32684,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32681\/revisions\/32684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}