{"id":14090,"date":"2016-02-04T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14090"},"modified":"2016-02-04T07:56:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:56:06","slug":"ghost-of-the-route-of-the-ghost-train-when-airline-meant-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ghost-of-the-route-of-the-ghost-train-when-airline-meant-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost of the route of the Ghost Train; When \u2018Airline\u2019 meant Railroad!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The old Boston New York Airline Railroad was a 54-mile line that connected Willimantic and New Haven, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

This was built decades before the first aeroplane made its first flight. In theory it offered a direct route between its namesake points, but in practice it wasn\u2019t really all that straight and itself never reached Boston or New York.<\/p>\n

It did however, serve as part of a through route for New York & New England\u2019s premier Boston-New York Express, which in its heyday in the 1880s-1890s was famous for its use of passenger cars that were painted gloss-white.<\/p>\n

It was known as the \u2018White Train\u2019 or to residents along the line that saw it pass in the night as the \u2018Ghost Train.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Exposed digitally with a FujiFilm X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today the old Airline is a hiking trail<\/a>. I made this photo west of Willimantic.<\/p>\n

Maybe there\u2019s a true ghost train that passes on windless winter nights?<\/p>\n

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