{"id":18708,"date":"2017-06-18T05:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18708"},"modified":"2017-06-17T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:35:18","slug":"hidden-treasure-19th-century-stone-arch-over-stony-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/hidden-treasure-19th-century-stone-arch-over-stony-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Treasure: 19th Century Stone Arch over Stony Brook."},"content":{"rendered":"

It always surprises me when I find some vestige of former times that I\u2019ve managed to overlook.<\/p>\n

Last week my on the advice of Felix Legere, we explored the old Nashua, Acton & Boston Railroad right of way near Forge Village east of Ayer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

This 24-mile 19th<\/sup> century railroad was among the lines melded into the Boston & Maine system. In 1875, it carried three passenger trains daily between Nashua and Concord Junction. Near Forge Village it crossed the Stony Brook railroad and a trolley line on an overpass.<\/p>\n

The NA&B was an early casualty of Boston & Maine retrenchment and abandoned about 1925.<\/p>\n

Today, part of the right of way is maintained as Tom Paul Rail Trail. Felix led our expedition to the railroad\u2019s vintage stone arch bridge over Stony Brook (for which the Stony Brook Railroad was named).<\/p>\n

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Bridge over Stony Brook. Exposed on Kodak Tri-X using a 50mm Summitar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking east.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View made with 12mm Zeiss Touit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made the color photos with my FujiFilm X-T1, and the black & white with a Leica IIIa with 50mm Summitar lens.<\/p>\n

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It always surprises me when I find some vestige of former times that I\u2019ve managed to overlook. Last week my on the advice of Felix Legere, we explored the old Nashua, Acton & Boston Railroad right of way near Forge Village east of Ayer, Massachusetts. This 24-mile 19th century railroad was among the lines melded … Continue reading Hidden Treasure: 19th Century Stone Arch over Stony Brook.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18706,"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":[],"tags":[4230,4227,4537,4228,4229,930,242,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nashua_Acton__Boston_bridge_over_Stony_Brook_Forge_Village_MA_MOD2_DSCF5716.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4RK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708"}],"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=18708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18709,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708\/revisions\/18709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}