{"id":8611,"date":"2014-10-13T02:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T06:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2014-10-09T04:15:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T08:15:28","slug":"danbury-connecticut-may-6-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/danbury-connecticut-may-6-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Danbury Connecticut, May 6, 2007."},"content":{"rendered":"

General Electric Dual Mode in New Haven Railroad Paint.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It was a bright Spring morning, when Pat Yough, Otto Vondrak & I made some photos along the former New Haven Railroad Danbury branch. We photographed this dual-mode at the old Danbury station.<\/p>\n

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Bright sun and fair-weather clouds make for a pleasant day. New Haven Railroad introduced this livery in the mid-1950s. The Connecticut Department of Transportation revived it in the mid-1980s when four former FL9s were rebuilt and repainted in their as-delivered scheme. Here we have a dual mode General Electric Genesis in an adaptation of the classic paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was about 30 years earlier, when my father, my brother Sean, and I boarded a wheezing Budd RDC at this very spot on a dull December day. The poor old car wasn\u2019t working well and it coiled up when we reached Branchville, Connecticut. A substitute bus brought us to the mainline.<\/p>\n

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