{"id":3871,"date":"2013-09-22T06:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T10:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2013-09-21T06:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T10:21:25","slug":"quiet-day-at-palmer-yard-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/quiet-day-at-palmer-yard-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Day at Palmer Yard, 1979."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kid with a Camera.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Looking south at Central Vermont<\/a>\u2019s Palmer, Massachusetts<\/a> Yard in spring 1979. The Rocket was loaded circus style using a ramp in the yard. RS-11s were typically assigned to this train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In spring 1979, my dad and I visited Central Vermont\u2019s Palmer, Massachusetts yard. At the time Palmer activity tended to be nocturnal. A lone RS-11 for The Rocket<\/i> (Palmer-St Albans, Vermont piggyback) was the only locomotive in town.<\/p>\n

I made a few exposures on Kodachrome<\/a> 64 with my Leica 3A. At the time I was in 7th<\/sup> grade at Monson Junior-Senior High School. Admittedly my photographic skills were rudimentary. The photos are passable, but a decent record of the scene.<\/p>\n

I wish I\u2019d made more photos of CV\u2019s piggyback trains. By the time I understood what it was about, it had stopped running. I have a few images of The Rocket<\/em> on the road, but not very many.<\/p>\n

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Detail view of CV RS-11 3611 at Palmer in spring 1979. RS-11s were among my favorite diesels and I\u2019d see them regularly at Palmer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Kid with a Camera. In spring 1979, my dad and I visited Central Vermont\u2019s Palmer, Massachusetts yard. At the time Palmer activity tended to be nocturnal. A lone RS-11 for The Rocket (Palmer-St Albans, Vermont piggyback) was the only locomotive in town. I made a few exposures on Kodachrome 64 with my Leica 3A. At … Continue reading Quiet Day at Palmer Yard, 1979.<\/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":[1334,1067,7535,29,104,30,7,1353,5,4,1352,1351,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-10r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}