{"id":39371,"date":"2024-06-21T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39371"},"modified":"2024-06-20T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:03:09","slug":"csx-local-freight-along-the-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-local-freight-along-the-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX Local Freight Along the Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Road switchers are designed for bi-directional operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was younger, EMD&#8217;s running long-hood forward annoyed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, I think its pretty cool to find a single SD40-2 operating long-hood first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, we saw CSX 8400 leading a local freight along the River Line in New York&#8217;s Hudson River Valley. I made this sequence of images from the Mine Dock Park near Ft Montgomery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposed using my Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Z-series-Nikkor lens. Contrast and saturation adjusted using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the mismatched number boards and the plow profiled for use in 3rd rail territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"39372\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-local-freight-along-the-hudson\/clear_signal_on_river_line_mine_dock_park_dsc_1636\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Clear_signal_on_River_Line_Mine_Dock_Park_DSC_1636.jpg?fit=1700%2C1131\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1131\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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When I was younger, EMD&#8217;s running long-hood forward annoyed me. These days, I think its pretty cool to find a single SD40-2 operating long-hood first. Last week, we saw CSX 8400 leading a local freight along the River Line in New York&#8217;s Hudson River Valley. I made this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-local-freight-along-the-hudson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSX Local Freight Along the Hudson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39374,"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":[5042,6065,5506,7996,5250],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CSX_8400_w_local_at_Mine_Dock_Park_NY_DSC_1640.jpg?fit=1700%2C1131","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-af1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371"}],"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=39371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39376,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371\/revisions\/39376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}