{"id":43611,"date":"2026-02-19T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43611"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:32:04","slug":"palmer-yard-office-1984-and-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/palmer-yard-office-1984-and-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Yard Office: 1984 and 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The top photo was exposed on Kodak Tri-X on the morning of April 12, 1984. I had been aware of Canadian National M420s working the northward freight from New London, and so spent the morning photographing these unusual diesels, when I was expected to be at Monson Jr-Sr High School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom photo was made last October at almost the same location with a Nikon Z-digital camera. The locomotives at right are former Canadian National GP40-2Ls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light aims to activate the Time Machine.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top photo was exposed on Kodak Tri-X on the morning of April 12, 1984. I had been aware of Canadian National M420s working the northward freight from New London, and so spent the morning photographing these unusual diesels, when I was expected to be at Monson Jr-Sr High School. The bottom photo was made … Continue reading Palmer Yard Office: 1984 and 2025<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43612,"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":[5044,6223],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CV_Yard_Palmer_MA_CN_M-420_April12_1984_TX_Brian-Solomon22028.jpg?fit=2048%2C1245","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-blp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611"}],"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=43611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43614,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions\/43614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}