{"id":40971,"date":"2025-01-16T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40971"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:39:17","slug":"gp40-2s-and-the-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/gp40-2s-and-the-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"GP40-2s and the Billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Palmer, Massachusetts; then and now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Spring 1999, CSX GP40-2s have worked the Palmer local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve paired two views of CSX GP40-2s on the local at CP83 (control point 83, as measured in miles west of Boston, Ma). In both photos, the lead locomotive is positioned in almost exactly the same place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first photo was exposed on Fujichrome using my Contax G2 rangefinder in June 2005, this is from the north side of the tracks; the second was made a few days after Christmas 2024 with my Nikon Z7-II, from the south side of the tracks. Both views feature the trackside billboard, which has been there in one form or another since at least the mid-1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friend Bob Buck had photographed steam locomotives at this same location with the billboard (or one of its early predecessors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CSX local Palmer, June 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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June 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dec 28, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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