{"id":5214,"date":"2014-01-17T05:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2014-01-17T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:22:24","slug":"daily-post-retro-railroading-at-greenfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-retro-railroading-at-greenfield\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST; Retro Railroading at Greenfield"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPan Am Railway\u2019s EDMO roars west on the Boston & Maine.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost like stepping back to the 1970s; three EMDs powered by turbocharged 16-645 diesels working under searchlight signals with a carload train.<\/p>\n

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On January 12, 2014, Pan Am Railway\u2019s EDMO (East Deerfield, Massachusetts to Mohawk Yard) works the old Boston & Maine Fitchburg route at Greenfield, Massachusetts. The line on the left is the Connecticut River route running south toward Springfield. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D fitted with an f2.0 100mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a nice contrast to the parade of\u00a0 double-stack containers and unit trains that characterize most American mainlines. While the details of the motive power have been altered since they were built, the spirit of the operation reminds me of watching trains more than 35 years ago.<\/p>\n

If you think about it, as point of comparison, if in 1979 you were to see 35 year-old motive power and a traditional freight train that probably would have been either steam engines, or EMD FTs leading 40-ft cars.<\/p>\n

Sure, you could argue that Pan Am\u2019s paint scheme is a relatively recent development, and the locomotives have been modified since the 1970s (the lead former Santa Fe SD45-2 had its 20-645E3 swapped with a 16-cylinder engine among other changes), but that belies the point.<\/p>\n

\"EDMO.<\/a>
EDMO. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D fitted with an f2.0 100mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tight<\/a>
Tight view of Pan Am 616. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D fitted with an f2.0 100mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For similar posts, click to see:\u00a0Pan Am Southern at Millers Falls, Massachusetts, October 2013<\/a>;\u00a0Pan Am Railways Ayer Massachusetts, January 17, 2013<\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0Boston & Maine Revisited, PART 2<\/a>;\u00a0Boston & Maine MERU, February 10, 1985<\/a><\/p>\n

My book Classic Locomotives<\/a> published by Voyageur Press<\/a> is available from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also see my big hard cover classic: Modern Locomotives<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pan Am Railway\u2019s EDMO roars west on the Boston & Maine. It\u2019s almost like stepping back to the 1970s; three EMDs powered by turbocharged 16-645 diesels working under searchlight signals with a carload train. This is a nice contrast to the parade of\u00a0 double-stack containers and unit trains that characterize most American mainlines. While the … Continue reading DAILY POST; Retro Railroading at Greenfield<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5213,"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":[],"tags":[3786,242,213,1879,1422,43,7535,342,1880,1878,104,1881,82,7,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/EDMO_616_Greenfield_close_IMG_3889-1.jpg?fit=800%2C533","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1m6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214"}],"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=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}