{"id":16667,"date":"2016-11-18T05:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16667"},"modified":"2016-09-09T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:25:52","slug":"ghostly-remains-of-a-cedar-hill-hump-yard-november-18-1984-four-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ghostly-remains-of-a-cedar-hill-hump-yard-november-18-1984-four-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly Remains of a Cedar Hill Hump Yard\u2014November 18, 1984; Four Photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this date 1984, my friends and I explored the ruins of New Haven Railroad\u2019s Cedar Hill Yard (near New Haven, Connecticut).<\/p>\n

In its heyday this vast facility had been a main gathering point for carload freight, and one of the largest yards in New England.<\/p>\n

We were fascinated by this relic of the earlier age, when New England was a major manufacturing center and freight moved primarily by rail.<\/p>\n

By 1984, Conrail still had a presence at Cedar Hill, but this was just a shadow of former times.<\/p>\n

I exposed these images using my Leica 3A with 50mm Leitz Sumitar.<\/p>\n

Here I\u2019ve corrected the level, as at that time I had the unfortunate habit of tilting my camera 3-5 degrees off level. These days both my Lumix LX7 and FujiFilm XT1 digital cameras have built in view-finder levels. Great features for modern cameras!<\/p>\n

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View from an old hump tower. What better month to photograph an abandoned yard than November?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An old 40ft New Haven Railroad boxcar that still had its New Haven markings. A fascinating relic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stark ruins of an industrial age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today Tracking the Light looks back!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  On this date 1984, my friends and I explored the ruins of New Haven Railroad\u2019s Cedar Hill Yard (near New Haven, Connecticut). In its heyday this vast facility had been a main gathering point for carload freight, and one of the largest yards in New England. We were fascinated by this relic of the … Continue reading Ghostly Remains of a Cedar Hill Hump Yard\u2014November 18, 1984; Four Photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16663,"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":[3800,3814,3802,3801,3804,116,636,3803],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Cedar_Hill_Yard_Nov_18_1984\u00a9Brian_Solomon_663074.jpg?fit=2524%2C1585","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4kP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667"}],"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=16667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16669,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667\/revisions\/16669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}