{"id":12819,"date":"2015-10-13T01:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T05:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2015-10-12T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:02:03","slug":"berkshire-scenics-hoosac-valley-a-dozen-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/berkshire-scenics-hoosac-valley-a-dozen-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Scenic\u2019s Hoosac Valley\u2014A Dozen Photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday October 11, 2015, my father and I drove over the Berkshires to travel and photograph\u2019s Berkshire Scenic\u2019s Hoosac Valley excursion that is now operating on a short portion of the old Boston & Albany branch between Renfrew in Adams and North Adams, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

This presented an opportunity to travel in an old Budd RDC and ride a rarely used portion of the Boston & Albany. This new excursion service had only begun on the previous day, and should run over the next few weekends.<\/p>\n

\"Berkshire<\/a>
Berkshire Scenic’s former Boston & Maine Budd-built RDC. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Berkshire<\/a>
Berkshire Scenic train departing Renfrew. FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Renfrew I met my friends Otto Vondrak, and Kevin Chittenden. Kevin was the engineer for the day.<\/p>\n

The weather was nearly perfect\u2014clear polarized sunny skies.<\/p>\n

On the only hitch was that a day or two earlier the RDC had developed an electric fault, and as a result was being towed\/propelled by a vintage EMD SW8 switcher.<\/p>\n

My Irish friends will note that this 800 hp locomotive is remarkably similar to CIE\u2019s Class 121s (also built by EMD).<\/p>\n

I made this selection of photographs with my Lumix LX7 and FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera. However, I also exposed a few colour slides with my father\u2019s Leica M4 with 35mm Summilux lens.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone at the Berkshire Scenic\/Hoosac Valley for making this an enjoyable day out.<\/p>\n

For details on the new excursion service see: http:\/\/hoosacvalleytrainride.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Or look at: Hoosac\u00a0Valley\u00a0Service<\/a> on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Otto<\/a>
Otto and Kevin at Renfrew, Mass. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lumix<\/a>
Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Interior<\/a>
Interior view of the RDC. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ticket<\/a>
Ticket collection on board. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lumix<\/a>
Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Kevin_C_w_Berkshire_SW8_P1330306\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lumix<\/a>
Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Berkshire_Scenic_train_departing_Renfrew_wide1_DSCF3717\"<\/a>
FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Berkshire_Scenic_train_Zylonite_wide1_DSCF3725\"<\/a>
FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"FujiFilm<\/a>
FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On Sunday October 11, 2015, my father and I drove over the Berkshires to travel and photograph\u2019s Berkshire Scenic\u2019s Hoosac Valley excursion that is now operating on a short portion of the old Boston & Albany branch between Renfrew in Adams and North Adams, Massachusetts. This presented an opportunity to travel in an old Budd … Continue reading Berkshire Scenic\u2019s Hoosac Valley\u2014A Dozen Photos!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2318,3006,41,3005,3004,791,3007],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12825,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}