{"id":13121,"date":"2015-11-10T01:23:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T06:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2015-11-08T22:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:32:54","slug":"ware-river-valley-vignettes%e2%80%91mass-central-at-gilbertville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ware-river-valley-vignettes%e2%80%91mass-central-at-gilbertville\/","title":{"rendered":"Ware River Valley Vignettes\u2011Mass Central at Gilbertville."},"content":{"rendered":"

Early November is a great time to explore the Ware River Valley. The trees are largely bare, yet a few colored leaves still cling to higher branches.<\/p>\n

Vestiges of old industries survive, as the old Boston & Albany branch meanders up the valley. This is a railroad that was left for dead nearly 40 years ago, and only survived through the dedication and hard work of a handful of local people.<\/p>\n

At least once every autumn, I make a photographic study of the line.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The old B&A station at Gilbertville, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Northward<\/a>
Northward Mass-Central local freight. The ghostly vestiges of an old mill loom silently beyond the trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Using my FujiFilm X-T1 I exposed these views at Gilbertville\u2014 a village in the town of Hardwick, where the old B&A station remains as a restaurant.<\/p>\n

This building is one of many stations featured in my new book Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals published this year by Voyageur Press<\/a>. Don’t miss out! Order\u00a0your copy today!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mass-Central local freight at Gilbertville.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most week days, Mass-Central\u2019s local freight departs Palmer after 7 am and works its way up to South Barre and back serving its customers along the way. On this day I found the train working in Ware.<\/p>\n

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Early November is a great time to explore the Ware River Valley. The trees are largely bare, yet a few colored leaves still cling to higher branches. Vestiges of old industries survive, as the old Boston & Albany branch meanders up the valley. This is a railroad that was left for dead nearly 40 years … Continue reading Ware River Valley Vignettes\u2011Mass Central at Gilbertville.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13119,"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":[41,43,3059,68,1485,104,236],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mass_Central_w_old_mill_at_Gilbertville_DSCF6160.jpg?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121"}],"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=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}