{"id":7560,"date":"2014-07-25T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2014-07-16T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:29:26","slug":"colorful-consist-crossing-the-connecticut-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/colorful-consist-crossing-the-connecticut-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Consist Crossing the Connecticut River."},"content":{"rendered":"

July 10, 2014.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We were waiting for Pan Am Southern\u2019s westward empty autorack, train 206. This was just the gravy: Earlier Mike Gardner, Brian Jennison and I, had already had a productive summer\u2019s day following the Mass-Central and caught Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter<\/em> in perfect light at Millers Falls.<\/p>\n

As we waited for 205, Pan Am\u2019s dispatcher routed its eastward counterpart, loaded autorack train 206 (destined for Ayer, Massachusetts), through the yard at East Deerfield to get it around a track gang.<\/p>\n

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Pan Am Southern train 206 crosses the Connecticut River at East Deerfield, Massachusetts on the evening of July 10, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was an unexpected bonus! The train was led by a colorful consist of General Electric diesels. A Union Pacific Evolution-series was up front, followed by a curious former Conrail and\/or LMS DASH8-40CW lettered for Canadian National and sublettered for CN\u2019s subsidiary Illinois Central. Trailing was a common Norfolk Southern DASH9-40CW.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just as well I shot this as a digital image and not as a color slide. I couldn\u2019t have fit all this information on the slide mount! (Although I did exposed a frame of black & white film).<\/p>\n

We never saw Pan Am\u2019s 205 that day.<\/p>\n

Nor did we catch the following unit grain train with BNSF locomotives leading. You can\u2019t win all the prizes.<\/p>\n

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