{"id":13761,"date":"2016-01-14T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13761"},"modified":"2016-01-14T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:17:36","slug":"new-haven-at-new-haven-connecticut-gauging-the-passage-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-haven-at-new-haven-connecticut-gauging-the-passage-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven at New Haven, Connecticut; Gauging the Passage of Time."},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop for a moment and gauge the passage of time and your relative perception of it.<\/p>\n

I made this photograph about 1980. I\u2019d been fascinated by the New Haven Railroad, and what I saw here I viewed then as a relic of times long gone.<\/p>\n

The old railroads such as the New Haven were those that my dad had photographed back in the days of sunny Kodachrome.<\/p>\n

At the time, I made this view of old New Haven cars at New Haven, Connecticut, I was 13. Conrail was then only 4 years old (formed on April 1, 1976), yet for me even its predecessor, Penn-Central was already a foggy memory.<\/p>\n

Looking back now, to me it doesn’t seem so long ago that Conrail vanished\u00a0(Its operations ended in 1999). And yet, for point of comparison\u00a0Conrail been gone almost four\u00a0years longer (17 years) than I\u2019d been alive at the time I made the photo.<\/p>\n

What is interesting? What seems old?<\/p>\n

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These old New Haven \u2018washboard\u2019 multiple units were only about 26 years on the property (built new c1954). I thought they were ancient. Yet, now in 2016 how old are the few surviving Metropolitan sets? Well into their 40s!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a high-school math class, I once remarked to my teacher, Mr. Ed Lucas, \u201cTime and your perception of time\u00a0are in inverse proportions to each other. The more time you experience, the faster it seems to go by.\u201d<\/p>\n

He replied, \u201cThat\u2019s awfully profound for someone your age!\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Christmas,\u00a0I related\u00a0this story over dinner. However, I was stunned to learn a little more than a week\u00a0later\u00a0that Ed Lucas passed away on New Years eve.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem so long since I sat in his class, and yet in another way it also seems like the dawn of time (or my perception of time)!<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Looks Back.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

New Posts\u00a0every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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