Dennis LeBeau was giving me a tour of post-industrial Worcester.

We called into ‘The Space Studios’ located in old brick factory buildings immediately north of CSX’s former Boston & Albany mainline near Webster Street. The building complex once hosted an array of sidings, including a small coal trestle.

 

Inside the studio Dennis’s son Tommy LeBeau was recording The Green Sisters who were energetically performing traditional Bluegrass with a variety of stringed instruments.

Using my Lumix LX-7 to its best advantage, I made a few evocative images of the session.

So what’s this have to do with railroads? Not much really, but its all related. Sometimes when you look for one thing, you find something else.

Later in the afternoon Dennis and I reviewed a vintage collection of B&A photos depicting the Worcester area. In the last 115 years a great deal has changed.

There was no Lumix LX7 in 1901.

I wonder what Worcester will be like in 2131?

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