{"id":4424,"date":"2013-11-07T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T04:01:01","slug":"daily-post-boston-albany-milepost-67-brookfield-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-boston-albany-milepost-67-brookfield-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday’s Post: Boston & Albany Milepost 67, Brookfield, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Rusty Autumnal Foliage on October 26, 2013.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few posts,\u00a0I\u2019ve alluded to this location at milepost 67. On the morning of October 26, 2013, I was up early. Before 8 am, I photographed at New England Central local at Palmer, and I suspected a CSX eastward intermodal train was getting close.<\/p>\n

My feeling was confirmed when I heard that CSX Q012 was at CP 109 (near Westfield, Massachusetts). This was at least 40 minutes away, and I didn\u2019t want to photograph this train at Palmer so I began driving east.<\/p>\n

I looked a few old standby locations on my way toward Brookfield, but I was really intend on my location at milepost 67. Why?<\/p>\n

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Looking west at milepost 67 on CSX’s former Boston & Albany mainline in Brookfield, Massachusetts. EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On October 25, 2007, I\u2019d caught CSX\u2019s eastward autorack train (symbol Q264) at the Route 148 Bridge at milepost 67. This was a good angle and foliage was just how I like it, but the light was dull.<\/p>\n

Move forward six years and the day was clear and bright and the rusty reddish leaves were clinging to selected trees making for a perfect autumn morning.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>
Looking east on CSX’s former Boston & Albany mainline at Brookfield, Massachusetts. My first visit to this spot was back on Labor Day weekend 1978, when my father brough my brother Sean and I out to watch Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited roll west. Back then EMD E8As were the rule of the day. Somewhere I have B&W negs from that afternoon. This image was exposed with a EOS 7D fitted with a 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a half and hour in the cold, which I used to make some test photos and vignettes of the old Boston & Albany line, I could hear the sound of General Electric diesels working eastbound. In short order the hot Q012 intermodal train came into view with relatively new Evolution-Series diesels.<\/p>\n

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CSX’s hot intermodal train symbol Q012 chugs eastward at milepost 67. Cross-lighting the train adds a sense of drama and provides visual balance to the trees at the right of the locomotives. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ll tick that off in the \u2018success\u2019 category. Since the next eastward train hadn\u2019t reached Pittsfield, I decided to get some writing done and called it a day.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, this was the first daylight move over the B&A since I photographed the westward ethanol train featured in yesterday\u2019s post. See: CSX Empty Ethanol Train Catches the Light at Brookfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Trailing<\/a>
Trailing view of CSX Q012 at Brookfield. This would make a great view of a westward train here at sunrise. A week later, I caught a nice afternoon image from this angle on the bridge and that will be the subject of another post. Stayed tuned!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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