{"id":41654,"date":"2025-05-01T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41654"},"modified":"2025-04-29T22:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:29:45","slug":"palmer-diamond-ten-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/palmer-diamond-ten-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Diamond\u2014Ten Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On May 1, 2015, I exposed this photo of a New England Central freight crossing CSX’s Boston Line on the Palmer, Massachusetts diamond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 28 years earlier, I’d exposed images of Canadian National Railways GP40-2Ls working at this same location. I’d have to find the photos and compare the rosters, since it is possible that the lead locomotive in this photo was one of those engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time I made this image in 2015, there were relatively few New England Central locomotives in Genesee & Wyoming paint, which had made this image a novelty because of NECR GP40-L 3015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, now when I look at it the photo, it is the bird in the sky that catches my interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FujiFilm RAF Raw file converted using DxO PureRaw to a PNG file and then adjusted for color, contrast and exposure in Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Examines Railroad Photography Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the time I made this image in 2015, there were relatively few New England Central locomotives in Genesee & Wyoming paint, which had made this image a novelty because of NECR GP40-L 3015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41655,"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":[8300,5060,5044],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20150501-NECR_Northbound_crossing_Palmer_Diamond_DSCF7065.jpg?fit=2048%2C1369","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aPQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41654"}],"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=41654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41660,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41654\/revisions\/41660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}