{"id":6803,"date":"2014-05-31T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2014-05-23T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:46:42","slug":"north-bennington-on-a-summer-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/north-bennington-on-a-summer-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"North Bennington on a Summer Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 27, 2010.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pan Am at North Bennington? Who could have imagined this 20 years ago?<\/p>\n

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Pan Am Railways RJ1 at at North Bennington; Victorian-era railway station with a sky blue 1970s-era diesel-electric. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent that morning following Vermont Rail System\u2019s \u2018B&R Job\u2019 south from Rutland. Yet the photographic highlight was catching its connection, Pan Am\u2019s RJ-1 local, at North Bennington.<\/p>\n

Back in the day, Pan Am was an airline with round the world schedules. The name conjures up images of handsome blue Boeing 747s, or pre-World War II \u2018Clippers\u2019 (see planes).<\/p>\n

Pan Am Railways is a re-branding of the Guilford system which operates former Boston & Maine and Maine Central lines. In 2007, two former Canadian National GP40-2L (sometimes identified as ‘GP40-2W’) locomotives were painted in a livery reminiscent of the old Pan Am Airlines’ scheme.<\/p>\n

Yet, this scenario seems just a bit weird to me, like some alternate version of the future. Anyway you look at it, the combination of the restored historic station and a sky blue engine is both fascinating and strange.<\/p>\n

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North Bennington station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Southward<\/a>
Southward Pan Am RJ-1 passes the Bennington Battlefield site. For a number of years the tracks here were largely dormant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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July 27, 2010. Pan Am at North Bennington? Who could have imagined this 20 years ago? I spent that morning following Vermont Rail System\u2019s \u2018B&R Job\u2019 south from Rutland. Yet the photographic highlight was catching its connection, Pan Am\u2019s RJ-1 local, at North Bennington. Back in the day, Pan Am was an airline with round … Continue reading North Bennington on a Summer Afternoon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6802,"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":[7535,1311,1310,82,154],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Station-at-North-Bennington-IMG_2496.jpg?fit=800%2C533","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1LJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803"}],"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=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}