{"id":34903,"date":"2022-12-03T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34903"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:08:30","slug":"new-haven-fl9-arrives-at-buzzards-bay-three-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-haven-fl9-arrives-at-buzzards-bay-three-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven FL9 Arrives at Buzzards Bay-Three photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Saturday evening, on our visit to Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, Kris and I photographed the arrival of Cape Cod Central\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Polar Express<\/em>&nbsp;Christmas train behind a New Haven Railroad painted FL9 diesel-electric\/electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically, the railway lines serving Cape Cod were part of New Haven Railroad\u2019s Old Colony Division and so NHRR\u2019s famous dual mode FL9 locomotives seem right at home at Buzzards Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kris has many friends at Cape Cod Central and we were welcomed at Buzzards Bay by the railroad\u2019s Kaylene Andrews Jableki who faciliated our photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"34906\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-haven-fl9-arrives-at-buzzards-bay-three-photos\/cape_cod_fl9_2026_w_polar_express_buzzards_bay_dsc_5010\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cape_Cod_FL9_2026_w_Polar_Express_Buzzards_Bay_DSC_5010.jpg?fit=1500%2C998\" data-orig-size=\"1500,998\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cape_Cod_FL9_2026_w_Polar_Express_Buzzards_Bay_DSC_5015.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cape_Cod_FL9_2026_w_Polar_Express_Buzzards_Bay_DSC_5015.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with my Nikon Z6, I made this sequence of photos of the FL9 leading the\u00a0<em>Polar Express<\/em>\u00a0into the station using existing light. My camera was set to ISO 8000, which allowed for a shutter speed of 1\/200<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of a second at f4.0.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned for more Cape Cod Central photos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#c73914\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris has many friends at Cape Cod Central and we were welcomed at Buzzards Bay by the railroad\u2019s Kaylene Andrews Jableki who faciliated our photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-94X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903"}],"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=34903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34907,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions\/34907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}