Over the years, my friends and I would visit the Boston&Maine/Guilford/Pan Am Southern East Deerfield Yard to make photos and get the lay of the land.
Depending on what was on the move, we might follow a freight north or south, east or west. For me the best chases were chasing an interesting westbound.
If we found a westbound with an interesting consist, we might just take it all the way to Mechanicville, New York, where the Boston & Maine crossed the Hudson River on an impressive multiple-span double-track deck truss.
February 13, 2005 was one of those days. Pat Yough and I picked up an EDRJ (East Deerfield to Rotterdam Junction, NY) and pursued it west, making a variety of photos along the way.
This train was led by a GP40 and former Norfolk & Western high-hood GP35 215. (This was a sister engine to Conway Scenic Railroad’s 216 that has often featured on Tracking the Light).
At the Hudson River Bridge, I made this photograph on Fujichrome Velvia100F (RVP100F) slide film using a Nikon F3 with Nikkor f2.8 180mm prime telephoto.
We continued west, follow this freight on secondary roads all the way to its westward terminus.
It was a great day on the old Boston & Maine!
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