{"id":40164,"date":"2024-10-02T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40164"},"modified":"2024-10-01T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:54:38","slug":"sd50s-on-the-boston-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sd50s-on-the-boston-albany\/","title":{"rendered":"SD50s on the Boston & Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 1984, I had just graduated high-school, and was aiming to visit Tucker’s Hobbies in Warren, Massachusetts on a Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must have chased this eastward Conrail freight from Palmer, staying ahead of it on Route 67. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standing immediately west of the old Boston & Albany station, I was poised with my Leica 3A fitted with a screw-mount Canon f1 .8 50mm. I arrived moments before the roar of the engines announced the approaching train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three new Conrail SD50s! That was a good catch. These locomotives, although common across the Conrail network, were not often seen in sets of three, and only occasionally operated on the B&A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least one of these units survives to the present day as a Norfolk Southern SD40E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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