{"id":4268,"date":"2013-10-24T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T23:58:41","slug":"news-flash-massachusetts-centrals-recently-acquired-gp38-makes-first-revenue-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/news-flash-massachusetts-centrals-recently-acquired-gp38-makes-first-revenue-run\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flash! Massachusetts Central\u2019s Recently Acquired GP38 makes First Revenue Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A Clear Autumn Day to Photograph a Shiny Blue Bird.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Massachusetts Central assigned one of two recently acquired GP38s to its weekday Palmer-South Barre local freight. Although Mass-Central received the two locomotives earlier this year, it is my understanding that today\u2019s train is the first regular revenue service run to use one.<\/p>\n

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Mass-Central 1751 leads the northward freight at Forest Lake, north of Thorndike, Massachusetts on October 24, 2013. Canon 7D photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The train departed Palmer this morning with the GP38 leading Mass-Central\u2019s 2100 and 960. The second two locomotives were left in Ware, while the freight continued up the Ware River Valley on the former Boston & Albany branch.<\/p>\n

Both of the Massachusetts Central\u2019s GP38s have been beautifully painted in a livery inspired by the classic Boston & Maine \u2018Blue Bird\u2019 scheme. Although most of Mass-Central\u2019s current route uses former Boston & Albany tracks, the railroad began as a switching operation on vestiges of\u00a0 Boston & Maine\u2019s Central Massachusetts line around Ware.<\/p>\n

Historically, the Central Massachusetts was a Boston & Maine route between Boston and Northampton, although it hasn\u2019t served as a through route since the 1930s. Massachusetts Central still operates a few segments of old B&M trackage, notably in Ware.<\/p>\n

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Mass-Central 1751, 2100 and 960 lead the northward freight near Ware, Massachusetts on October 24, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mass-Central<\/a>
Mass-Central arrives at Ware Yard on October 24, 2013. Canon 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mass<\/a>
Mass Central 1751 works toward South Barre, Massachusetts on October 24, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0For today’s regularly scheduled post see:\u00a0Hot Spot: Palmer, Massachusetts, October 17, 2013\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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See my\u00a0Dublin Page<\/a>\u00a0for images of Dublin’s Open House Event in October 2013.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0A Clear Autumn Day to Photograph a Shiny Blue Bird. Today, Massachusetts Central assigned one of two recently acquired GP38s to its weekday Palmer-South Barre local freight. Although Mass-Central received the two locomotives earlier this year, it is my understanding that today\u2019s train is the first regular revenue service run to use one. The train … Continue reading News Flash! Massachusetts Central\u2019s Recently Acquired GP38 makes First Revenue Run<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[4537,1487,1486,1488,787,1489,7535,1484,1485,104,1482,978,1483,30,460],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-16Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268"}],"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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}