{"id":8685,"date":"2014-10-24T02:02:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T06:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2014-10-24T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:25:49","slug":"mass-central-2100-ware-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mass-central-2100-ware-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass-Central 2100, Ware, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Old Friend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On, October 15, 2014, I was giving a tour to some visitors from France, and we passed through Ware on our way from the Quabbin Reservoir to West Brookfield\u2019s Salem Cross Inn.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, I\u2019d noticed that Mass-Central had parked its rare Electro-Motive Division model NW5 2100 in Ware yard near the Route 9\/32 overpass. So, we made a quick diversion\u00a0so that I could make a photograph of the locomotive.<\/p>\n

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Mass-Central 210 rests at Ware yard on former Boston & Albany trackage on October 15, 2014. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D with 20mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve written about this before, but it was about 1981, when I rode my bicycle from Monson to Ware, specifically to photograph this locomotive, which had then just recently been delivered to Mass-Central.<\/p>\n

When I think about all the locomotives that have come and gone in that time, I can\u2019t help but smile. Old 2100 has nine lives, and then some! And it\u2019s not that I need another photograph of it, but I make them anyway.<\/p>\n

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\"Mass-Central<\/a>
Mass-Central NW5 2100 is one of 13 such locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1946 and 1947. It was originally bought by Southern Railway, but has worked Mass-Central\u2019s Ware River Branch since the early 1980s. Exposed with a Lumix LX7 using the ‘Vivid’ color profile. Compare with the high dynamic range (HDR image below.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My Lumix LX7 has a HDR setting that makes three images at different exposure settings in rapid succession and then combines them in-camera to create a single image with greater highlight and shadow detail than possible with a single digital exposure. Notice how this effect mutes the color and lowers contrast. Which image is better? You decide. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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