{"id":43579,"date":"2026-02-15T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43579"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:58:31","slug":"rdcs-at-springfield-station-41-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rdcs-at-springfield-station-41-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"RDCs at Springfield Station-41 Years Ago."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My post on February 9th, featuring a Reading & Northern Budd RDC, inspired me to located similar views that I made on black & film of Amtrak RDCs on the Springfield-Hartford-New Haven route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the photos I found among my old negative were these views at Springfield Union Station (Massachusetts) of Amtrak’s RDC-2s 34 and 36 idling between runs on February 15, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with a Leica 3A rangefinder, I’d made these photos on Ilford FP4. I processsed the film in Kodak D-76, and then filed the negatives away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, there was nothing remarkble about this scene. Today, the photos make for a trip down memory lane. Years after I made this photo, a former boss advised me; “When you look around you can see the flowers or the garbage, it is your choice.” In these photos, I see RDCs in what had been a favorite place to make railroad photographs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you look around you can see the flowers or the garbage, it is your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43581,"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":[6303,5283],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Amtrak_RDCs_Springfield_MA_union_station_Feb15_1985_FP4_Brian-Solomon22071.jpg?fit=2048%2C1334","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bkT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579"}],"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=43579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43585,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions\/43585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}