Millers Falls
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Millers Falls High Bridge—Revisited.
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The early 20thcentury pin-connected deck truss over the Millers River at its namesake Millers Falls, Massachusetts is one of my favorite places to picture New England Central freights.
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Vintage Chrome: Millers Falls High Bridge—Then and Now.
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Compare my 1986 view of the Central Vermont with this modern image of New England Central 611, both crossing the Millers Falls high bridge over the Millers River.
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Zoom Lens at Millers Falls.
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A ‘zoom lens’ is a lens with adjustable focal length. Often the term is confused with a telephoto. Where a zoom lens may be a telephoto, it isn’t necessarily so. In the case of my 18-135mm Fujinon lens, this is…
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Sunburst on the Boston & Maine.
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Alternatively, I could call this Tracking the Light post, ‘28N at Millers Falls.’ Whichever you like. So what do you do in a situation where a train is coming directly out of the midday sun? You could 1) give up….
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Millers Falls High Bridge—October 2015.
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When in doubt, try again. Earlier in the week Mike Gardner and I had missed the New England Central at Millers Falls, Massachusetts. It wasn’t for a lack of trying, but we’d misqued, got caught in traffic, and just not…
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DAILY POST: Vermonter at Dusk
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Ethereal View at Millers Falls, January 2014. Tim Doherty asked me a few weeks back, “Have you ever tried a shot from the north side of the Millers Falls high bridge?” I’d looked a this several times, but was discouraged…
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DAILY POST: Pan Am Southern at Millers Falls, Massachusetts, October 2013
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Along the old Boston & Maine’s Fitchburg Mainline. At Millers Falls, New England Central and Pan Am Southern run parallel for a short distance. In this view Pan Am’s westward freight symbol 190ED with a pair of leased SD40-2s (wearing…
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Amtrak Extra, Millers Falls, Massachusetts, October 22, 2013
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Unusual Locomotives Cross the Millers High Bridge. There’s something very ‘October’ about Millers Falls. It’s just a bit spooky and has an air of decay and rust about it. The village has seen better times, but it’s a great place…
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New England Central at Millers Falls, Massachusetts, December 9, 2012
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This morning (December 9, 2012), New England Central 603 worked north from Palmer, Massachusetts to the Pan Am Railways interchange at Millers Falls. To pick up and drop cars, the train worked a north-facing switch that required it to pull…
