{"id":37981,"date":"2024-01-02T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37981"},"modified":"2024-01-02T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:36:53","slug":"mbta-717-at-norfolk-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-717-at-norfolk-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTA 717 at Norfolk, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Filtered winter sun is better than rain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thin layers of clouds and bare early winter trees makes for a setting that reminds me of growing up in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kris and I stopped into Norfolk, Massachusetts during a brief visit with family over the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived at Norfolk&#8217;s MBTA Station shortly before the arrival of westward Franklin Branch commuter train 717 led by HSP-46 No. 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its heyday, this route had been the mainline of the New York &amp; New England, an erstwhile competitor, and later component of the New Haven Railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made these images using my Nikon Z7-II. 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Thin layers of clouds and bare early winter trees makes for a setting that reminds me of growing up in Massachusetts. Kris and I stopped into Norfolk, Massachusetts during a brief visit with family over the holidays. We arrived at Norfolk&#8217;s MBTA Station shortly before the arrival of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-717-at-norfolk-mass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MBTA 717 at Norfolk, Mass.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37983,"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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[6542,5690,6541,6543,104,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MBTA_train_717_at_Norfolk_MA_DSC_5919.jpg?fit=1800%2C1006","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9SB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981"}],"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=37981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37986,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions\/37986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}