{"id":7280,"date":"2014-06-27T03:12:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T07:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:04:02","slug":"central-vermont-gp9s-palmer-massachusetts-august-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-gp9s-palmer-massachusetts-august-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Vermont GP9s, Palmer, Massachusetts, August 1989."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A Different Angle.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve made countless images of the Central Vermont Railway, and its modern day successor, New England Central at Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>It was a warm August evening, the light was nice, and a pair of CV GP9s were working the Conrail interchange.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7279\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/06\/25\/central-vermont-gp9s-palmer-massachusetts-august-1989\/cv_ry_at_palmer_station_june1989brian_solomon_236470\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7279\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-gp9s-palmer-massachusetts-august-1989\/cv_ry_at_palmer_station_june1989brian_solomon_236470\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?fit=700%2C473\" data-orig-size=\"700,473\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed on Kodachrome with a Leica M2 with 35mm Summicron lens.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?fit=700%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?fit=474%2C320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7279\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?resize=474%2C320\" alt=\"  Exposed on Kodachrome with a Leica M2 with 35mm Summicron lens.\" width=\"474\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?w=700 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?resize=205%2C138 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?resize=443%2C300 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Exposed on Kodachrome with a Leica M2 with 35mm Summicron lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rather than simply make another close-up trackside-view, I opted for this unusual angle south of the old Union Station. I put CV\u2019s tracks in the foreground, while framing the locomotives in the canopy supports of the station. For me this tells a story while putting a less common perspective on a familiar place.<\/p>\n<p>This was 15 years before the station was restored and transformed into the Steaming Tender Restaurant. Now the station is again vibrant, while CV and Conrail are many years gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; color: inherit; text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0posts\u00a0new\u00a0material\u00a0every\u00a0morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; color: inherit; text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\">Please share\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a><\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\">!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; color: inherit; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; color: inherit; text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Different Angle. Over the years, I\u2019ve made countless images of the Central Vermont Railway, and its modern day successor, New England Central at Palmer. It was a warm August evening, the light was nice, and a pair of CV GP9s were working the Conrail interchange. Rather than simply make another close-up trackside-view, I opted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-gp9s-palmer-massachusetts-august-1989\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Central Vermont GP9s, Palmer, Massachusetts, August 1989.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7279,"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":[111,7535,2241,460],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CV_Ry_at_Palmer_Station_June1989\u00a9Brian_Solomon_236470.jpg?fit=700%2C473","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1Tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280"}],"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=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}