{"id":41963,"date":"2025-06-16T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41963"},"modified":"2025-06-15T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:31:04","slug":"new-england-centrals-veterans-service-members-locomotive-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-england-centrals-veterans-service-members-locomotive-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Central’s Veterans & Service Members Locomotive by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On that hazy evening in Palmer, Mass., last week, I made several classic nocturnal locomotive portraits of New England Central GP40-2L 3015 that has been painted to honor America’s veterans and service members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the course of switching, this sharp looking locomotive paused for a few minutes. Thick haze contributed to the laser-like beams of the locomotive headlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these images with my Nikon Z7-II firmly mounted on a 3Pod tripod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens set to 40mm, ISO 80, f4 at 10 seconds. File converted to DNG using DxO Pure Raw, then edited in Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens set to 31mm, ISO 80, f4 at 8 seconds. File converted to DNG using DxO Pure Raw, then edited in Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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