{"id":6775,"date":"2014-05-24T03:06:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T07:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2014-05-20T08:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T12:10:58","slug":"csx-business-train-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-business-train-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX Business Train at Dusk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><span style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128); \"><strong>February 24, 2010.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d called up to Tucker\u2019s Hobbies at closing time. Bob Buck met me at the door. \u201cThe <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"CSX Transportation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSX_Transportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">CSX<\/a> Business train passed Worcester westbound more than 20 minutes ago!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We made a hasty departure for Palmer. And halfway down the Quaboag River Valley between West Warren and Palmer, I hear CSX\u2019s dragging equipment detector at West Warren report, \u2018no defects\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about 3 minutes behind us,\u201d I said, as I accelerated the car.<\/p>\n<p>We pulled into the yard at Palmer, near the site of the old freight house. It was wet, the light was fading. I prepped my Lumix as the train came into view, and popped off a few pan photos as it raced west. Bob was delighted! I made a few prints for him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6774\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/05\/24\/csx-business-train-at-dusk\/csx-business-train-speeds-though-palmer-23-feb-2010-2-p1070888\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6774\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-business-train-at-dusk\/csx-business-train-speeds-though-palmer-23-feb-2010-2-p1070888\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070888.jpg?fit=800%2C450\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed with a Panasonic Lumix LX3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6773\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/05\/24\/csx-business-train-at-dusk\/csx-business-train-speeds-though-palmer-23-feb-2010-2-p1070890\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6773\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-business-train-at-dusk\/csx-business-train-speeds-though-palmer-23-feb-2010-2-p1070890\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070890.jpg?fit=800%2C450\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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wp-image-6773\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070890.jpg?resize=474%2C267\" alt=\"Exposed with a Panasonic Lumix LX3.\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070890.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070890.jpg?resize=205%2C115 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070890.jpg?resize=709%2C398 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070890.jpg?resize=500%2C281 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 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I\u2019d called up to Tucker\u2019s Hobbies at closing time. Bob Buck met me at the door. \u201cThe CSX Business train passed Worcester westbound more than 20 minutes ago!\u201d We made a hasty departure for Palmer. And halfway down the Quaboag River Valley between West Warren and Palmer, I hear CSX\u2019s dragging equipment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-business-train-at-dusk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSX Business Train at Dusk.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6774,"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":[3786,2180,193,7535,30,1034],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CSX-business-train-speeds-though-Palmer-23-Feb-2010-2-P1070888.jpg?fit=800%2C450","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1Lh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775"}],"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=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}