{"id":14356,"date":"2016-03-04T05:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14356"},"modified":"2016-03-03T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T21:57:27","slug":"conrail-classic-beacon-park-yard-november-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-classic-beacon-park-yard-november-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail Classic: Beacon Park Yard, November 1987."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exposed on Kodachrome 25 using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Kodachrome slide represents a memory of how things were:<\/p>\n

Back when Conrail operated the old Boston & Albany.<\/p>\n

Back when Boston\u2019s Beacon Park was an active yard.<\/p>\n

I passed this location on the Logan Express bus from Framingham the other day. It is much changed<\/p>\n

The tracks at CP4 were being re-aligned.<\/p>\n

A few years back CSX had come to an arrangement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and agreed to close the yard.<\/p>\n

Now at Beacon Park the remaining yard tracks are weed grown and vacant.<\/p>\n

Intermodal trains now only run as far east as Worcester where a new, expanded yard was constructed during 2011-2012 to take the place of Beacon Park.<\/p>\n

What little carload freight CSX has in\u00a0Boston is handled by a local freight.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be willing to bet that today more freight moves through the interchange at Palmer than is generated in Boston.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light is Daily!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Kodachrome slide represents a memory of how things were: Back when Conrail operated the old Boston & Albany. Back when Boston\u2019s Beacon Park was an active yard. I passed this location on the Logan Express bus from Framingham the other day. It is much changed The tracks at CP4 were being re-aligned. A few … Continue reading Conrail Classic: Beacon Park Yard, November 1987.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14355,"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":[4537,3379,678,41,53,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Conrail_9541_Beacon_Park_Allston_MA_Nov1987_Brian_Solomon_575255.jpg?fit=2400%2C1667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356"}],"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=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14358,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions\/14358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}