{"id":16564,"date":"2016-08-30T03:27:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T07:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16564"},"modified":"2016-08-30T02:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:38:21","slug":"beacon-park-final-farewell-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/beacon-park-final-farewell-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Park Final Farewell\u2014August 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

My last view. (Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and Google Plus viewers may\u00a0need to click on Brian Solomon’s Tracking the Light to see the big picture).<\/p>\n

This former Boston & Albany freight yard was the site of some my earliest photographic efforts.<\/p>\n

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My last-ever view of Boston’s Beacon Park yard. Exposed in late-August 2016 using a Lumix LX7 and processed with Lightroom to adjust framing and contrast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several years ago, in a deal with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, CSX agreed to close its Boston yard to open the property for redevelopment. As a result, its intermodal yard at Worcester was expanded to accommodate the lost capacity.<\/p>\n

The result is that Boston now has virtually no through rail-freight service. The trickle of remaining CSX rail-freight traffic is handled by a local from Framingham, Massachusetts. Container (and piggyback) traffic is accommodated by road.<\/p>\n

Many years ago, Boston was a major freight hub, and Beacon Park was a very busy place\u2014those days have long since passed.<\/p>\n

For the last few years, the tracks at Beacon Park have sat disused and rusted.<\/p>\n

Presently, track gangs are salvaging what remains of the old yard.<\/p>\n

Someone, somewhere will declare \u2018progress\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ironically, I exposed\u00a0this view from a bus on the Mass-Turnpike Extension, the highway that more than 50 years ago assumed operation on considerable chunks of former Boston & Albany right of way.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light is Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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My last view. (Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and Google Plus viewers may\u00a0need to click on Brian Solomon’s Tracking the Light to see the big picture). This former Boston & Albany freight yard was the site of some my earliest photographic efforts. Several years ago, in a deal with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, CSX agreed to close … Continue reading Beacon Park Final Farewell\u2014August 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16565,"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":[3778,3777,3379,41,35,1289],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Beacon_Park_P1510624-2.jpg?fit=2425%2C1445","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4ja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564"}],"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=16564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16566,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions\/16566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}