{"id":4926,"date":"2013-12-20T05:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T10:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:04:46","slug":"daily-post-vermont-twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-vermont-twilight\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Vermont Twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost of the Balls in Bellow Falls.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Searchlight<\/a>
Blue sky and red signals; the old Boston & Maine-era searchlight protects the Bellows Falls diamond. In the steam era an old ball signal protected this crossing, then with Rutland Railroad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twilight, apparently, may strictly defined by the specific position of the sun below the horizon.<\/p>\n

\u2018Civil Twilight\u2019 as defined by the National Weather Service, is \u2018the time at which the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon.\u2019 Key to this period is that \u2018there is enough light for objects to be clear distinguishable.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always used the term in a more general sense to indicate the time of day when there\u2019s a glow in the sky (before sunrise or after sunset). I suppose, the more appropriate title for these evening photographs would \u2018Dusk at Bellows Falls.\u2019<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was the end of day\u2019s photography in October 2004, when Tim Doherty and I visited Bellows Falls to witness the arrival of Guilford Rail System\u2019s WJED (White River Junction-East Deerfield) freight.<\/p>\n

This train worked interchange from Vermont Rail System\u2019s Green Mountain Railroad and I made a series of atmospheric images at the passenger station. In the lead was a former Norfolk Southern high-hood GP35, a rare-bird indeed.<\/p>\n

Bellows Falls is one of my favorite places to make railway images. I\u2019ve been visiting as long as I can remember. My family had been taking day trips to Bellows Falls, and some of my earliest memories are of the tracks here. But, I\u2019ve rarely made photos here at this time of day.<\/p>\n

Twilight? Dusk? Evening? How about: dark enough to warrant a tripod, but light enough to retain color in the sky?<\/p>\n

\"Guilford\u2019s<\/a>
Guilford\u2019s WJED eases past the Bellows Falls passenger station. Exposed using a Nikon N90S with Fujichrome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"WJED<\/a>
WJED shoves back on the interchange to collect cars from the Green Mountain Railroad. The Rutland had been gone more 40 years when I made these photos; more than 50 now. Which went first? The Rutland or the balls at Bellows Falls?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ghost of the Balls in Bellow Falls. Twilight, apparently, may strictly defined by the specific position of the sun below the horizon. \u2018Civil Twilight\u2019 as defined by the National Weather Service, is \u2018the time at which the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon.\u2019 Key to this period is that \u2018there is enough light for … Continue reading DAILY POST: Vermont Twilight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4537,1748,1749,242,43,316,7535,342,1448,256,1255,1416,1750,45,5,4,1752,33,1751,200,154],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GRS_WJED_Bellows_Falls_Vt_Oct2004_Brian-Solomon-2345102.jpg?fit=700%2C445","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926"}],"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=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}