{"id":13924,"date":"2016-01-29T05:16:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13924"},"modified":"2016-01-29T05:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T10:33:49","slug":"boston-albany-west-end-conrail-in-the-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/boston-albany-west-end-conrail-in-the-berkshires\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston & Albany West End-Conrail in the Berkshires."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, September 22, 1985.<\/p>\n

This photo was product of one of dozens of trips I made to the old Boston & Albany west end in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n

The west end is the railroad west of Springfield over the Berkshires of Massachusetts toward Albany, New York.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on 120 black & white film using a Rollei Model T. Exposure calculated using a GE hand held light meter. Film processed in D76 1:1, and scanned with an Epson V750.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On this morning I waswest of Chester, Massachusetts perched on the top of an rock cutting \u00a0that\u00a0dated\u00a0to the time of the line’s construction circa\u00a01839-1840.<\/p>\n

This Conrail eastward train was slowly making its way east. It was serenely quite in these hills and I’d hear the freight making its descent of Washington Hill miles before it finally appeared.<\/p>\n

Imagine this setting one hundred and forty years earlier when it was the old Western Rail Road (precursor to the Boston & Albany). A time when one of \u00a0Winan’s peculiar vertical boiler 0-8-0s would have led a train of primitive four wheel freight cars over this same line.<\/p>\n

Fewer trees then. And no cameras!<\/p>\n

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This is an adjusted version of the same image. I’ve slight altered contrast and exposure to make it appear better on some computer screens. On my screen this looks closer the way I would have printed the negative back in 1985 by using a cold head (diffusion) enlarger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, September 22, 1985. This photo was product of one of dozens of trips I made to the old Boston & Albany west end in the mid-1980s. The west end is the railroad west of Springfield over the Berkshires of Massachusetts toward Albany, New York. On this morning I waswest of Chester, Massachusetts perched on … Continue reading Boston & Albany West End-Conrail in the Berkshires.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13923,"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":[3814,4537,3292,294,41,53,104,236],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Conrail_BA-Sept-22-1985Brian-Solomon_581512.jpg?fit=2369%2C1688","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3CA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924"}],"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=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13929,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions\/13929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}