#Monson

  • Tornado! Ten Years Ago Today.

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    June 1, 2011 freakish weather conditions produced an F3 Tornado that struck my home town of Monson, Massachusetts.

  • Monson March Morning

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    We drove post haste through Monson, as the northward freight was approaching the ‘Monson Tunnel’ (Route 32 underpass at Academy Hill), and selected a spot well ahead of the train where the morning sun provided excellent illumination.

  • Central Vermont 562 on State Line Hill-June 1986.

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    I was very much impressed by the colors in this image when it was returned to me from Kodak, and the appearance of this slide and other K25 images contributed to my decision to adopt this emulsion as my standard slide film.

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    Sunday’s Surprise.

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    At Robbins Road in Monson, I made this dramatic trailing view of the locomotives. Here we have a selection of NECR GP38s roaring away in ‘Run-8’—maximum throttle on the tooth of the grade.