{"id":33194,"date":"2022-04-13T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33194"},"modified":"2022-04-13T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:18:45","slug":"rock-train-at-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rock-train-at-frankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock train at Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, April 12, 2022, Conway Scenic operated a loaded ballast train on the former Maine Central Mountain Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the train was former Maine Central GP38 255 acquired by CSRR last October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I arranged to be in position at the west end of the Frankenstein Bridge to catch the up-hill move, and exposed this sequence of digital photographs using my Nikon Z6 mirror-less camera with 24-70mm Z-series zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although overcast, the lighting was well suited to a red locomotive with black ballast 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