To mark the date, I thought I’d share this classic Kodachrome Slide of MBTA F40PH-2 1013 passing former New Haven Railroad semaphores at Readville, Massachusetts.
I made this photo using my old Leica M2 back in June 1987.
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On this day 32 years ago I exposed this frame of Kodachrome 25 slide film using my old Leica M2 rangefinder with an f2.0 50mm Summicron lens.
Low sun and dark clouds made for a moody dramatic setting.
An Amtrak shuttle working the Springfield, Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut run has just departed Springfield Union Station.
The towers on either side of the train historically housed the elevators that connected the platforms with a below-track concourse.
Back in the day, I hand-printed an 11×14 inch Cibachrome print from this slide.
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In conjunction with line works on the west end of MBTA’s Franklin Branch, weekend trains were terminating at Walpole, Massachusetts with bus connections to Norfolk, Franklin and Forge Park.
The old passenger station is still in use at this location.
Here, the Franklin Branch crosses the former New Haven Railroad Old Colony line that runs between Mansfield and Framingham, Massachusetts on a traditional diamond.
More than 30 years ago I visited Walpole on several occasions to photograph trains passing the steam era semaphores that still protected the diamond.
These photos were made in November 2020 using my Nikon Z6 mirrorless digital camera.
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