{"id":4723,"date":"2013-12-06T05:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T10:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2013-12-06T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:51:29","slug":"daily-post-quaboag-river-sunset-june-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-quaboag-river-sunset-june-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Quaboag River Sunset, June 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conrail\u2019s GE C30-7As catch the Glint.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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At 7:00 pm on June 17, 1986, I used my dad\u2019s Rollei T to capture this image of Conrail eastward freight SEBO-B crossing the Quaboag River bridge west of Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In early summer 1986, Conrail was weeks away from converting the Boston & Albany route from a traditional directional double track mainline to a single-track line under the control of CTC-style signals with cab-signal. The first section to be cut-over to the new control system was between Palmer to Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Among the results of this change was the abandonment and eventual lifting of the old westward main train west of Palmer.<\/p>\n

I was well aware of this pending change and had been documenting Conrail\u2019s work in the area over the preceding months.<\/p>\n

On the evening of June 17, 1986, I focused on the westward main track at the Quaboag River bridge just west of the Palmer diamond as Conrail\u2019s eastward SEBO-B dropped down the short grade toward the Palmer yard.<\/p>\n

While the train adds interest to the scene; my main focus was the track in the foreground that would soon be gone. I made a variety of images in this area on the weeks up to Conrail\u2019s cut-over day.<\/p>\n

Photographing directly into the clear summer sun produced a painterly abstraction. I\u2019ve allowed some flare to hit the camera\u2019s lens which obscures shadow detail and makes for a dream-like quality.<\/p>\n

Years after I exposed this frame, I moved to California where I met photographers that had perfected this photographic technique. Interestingly, railroad photographers had been using backlighting to good advantage for a long time. In \u00a0searching through archives I\u2019ve come across fine examples of Fred Jukes\u2019 and Otto Perry\u2019s works with similar backlighting effects.<\/p>\n

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Conrail\u2019s GE C30-7As catch the Glint. In early summer 1986, Conrail was weeks away from converting the Boston & Albany route from a traditional directional double track mainline to a single-track line under the control of CTC-style signals with cab-signal. The first section to be cut-over to the new control system was between Palmer to … Continue reading DAILY POST: Quaboag River Sunset, June 1986<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4724,"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":[3814,1640,26,41,80,53,193,7535,1643,1590,104,236,1641,30,460,1644,7,1034,5,4,58,1642],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CR-SEBO-B_Jun17_86-Quaboag_River_B_Solomon.jpg?fit=600%2C449","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1eb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723"}],"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=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}