{"id":3731,"date":"2013-09-09T05:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2013-09-09T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:37:17","slug":"electro-motive-switcher-in-holyoke-massachusetts-august-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/electro-motive-switcher-in-holyoke-massachusetts-august-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Electro-Motive Switcher in Holyoke, Massachusetts August 1987."},"content":{"rendered":"

Capturing an Engine in its Environment.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Enthusiasm counts for a lot. I had just recently purchased a second-hand Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron, and I was seeing photos everywhere I looked.<\/p>\n

I often poked around Holyoke, where the mix of 19th<\/sup> century mill buildings and decaying railroad infrastructure offered endless possibilities for photography.<\/p>\n

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Springfield Terminal 1401 switches a carload of scrap metal at the north-end of Holyoke Yard on August 20, 1987. Exposed on Professional Kodachrome<\/a> 25 (PKM) using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At that time, Guilford Transportation Industries<\/a> was the big show in town. In addition to several through freights and a local, a switcher was often on duty drilling the Boston & Maine<\/a> yard.<\/p>\n

On August 20, 1987, I found this former Boston & Maine SW1, recently repainted and renumbered as Springfield Terminal 1401. I exposed this image from the street, across from the old passenger station. For me it captures the feel of Holyoke at the time.<\/p>\n

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Capturing an Engine in its Environment. Enthusiasm counts for a lot. I had just recently purchased a second-hand Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron, and I was seeing photos everywhere I looked. I often poked around Holyoke, where the mix of 19th century mill buildings and decaying railroad infrastructure offered endless possibilities for photography. At that … Continue reading Electro-Motive Switcher in Holyoke, Massachusetts August 1987.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4537,242,682,43,7535,1263,1262,9,29,310,104,1264,7,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-Yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"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=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}