{"id":41942,"date":"2025-06-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41942"},"modified":"2025-06-13T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:10:16","slug":"golden-moon-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/golden-moon-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Moon Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a long history of making night photos of trains in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The names have changed since my first attempts at exposing Tri-X in the early 1980s, but Palmer remains an interesting place to practice night rail-photo techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other night a full moon was rising through an ash-tinted sky, (presumably as the result of Canadian wildfires). Kris said, ‘Never mind the train! Look at the moon!!” It was a grand golden globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New England Central’s 608 was switching the former Central Vermont yard. So, I made several images attempts to make compositions with the train and the moon. The steam locomotive on display is a stock-industrial 0-6-0 built by Porter in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the most of the moon proved challenging and I’m not completely pleased with this selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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