{"id":43789,"date":"2026-04-02T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43789"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:08:40","slug":"plenty-of-power-at-twin-ledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/plenty-of-power-at-twin-ledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Power at Twin Ledges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is always nice to catch an extra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friends and I were set up at the rock cut that in part comprises the location known as ‘Twin Ledges’ situated on the east slope of Washington Hill. This was the former Boston & Albany main line, operated by Conrail as its Boston Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trees had just a leafed out on May 24, 1987, when I made this image of a laden Conrail BAL (ballast) extra ascending the grade behind a consist of GE C30-7As.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long after the train had squeeled through the reverse curves, we could hear its locomotives chugging west toward Washington Summit near Hinsdale, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrail was a class act that made for countless photo opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fifty Years after it commenced operations,<\/strong> Tracking the Light takes a fond look back on Conrail!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trees had just a leafed out on May 24, 1987, when I made this image of a laden BAL (ballast) extra ascending the grade behind a consist of GE C30-7As.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43790,"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":[5128,6044,6489],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Conrail_BAL-extra_at_Twin_Ledges_Middlefield_MA_May24_1987\u00a9BrianSolomon_200589.jpg?fit=2048%2C1394","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-boh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43789"}],"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=43789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43793,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43789\/revisions\/43793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}