{"id":18831,"date":"2017-07-05T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18831"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:50:03","slug":"overcast-afternoon-at-east-deerfield-june-29-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/overcast-afternoon-at-east-deerfield-june-29-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcast Afternoon at East Deerfield\u2014June 29, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the third in my series of farewell posts on the famed East Deerfield \u2018Railfan\u2019s Bridge.\u2019<\/p>\n

The McClelland Farm Road bridge over the Boston & Maine tracks at the west end of East Deerfield Yard (near Greenfield, Massachusetts) has been a popular place to photograph trains since the steam era. Work has begun to replace this old span with a new bridge to be located about 40 feet further west.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be the first to admit that I\u2019ve exposed a disproportionate number of photos here. Yet, it has remained a good place for railroad photography for several logical reasons:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s at a hub; because of the bridge\u2019s location at the west-end of Pan Am Railway\u2019s East Deerfield yard, there tends to be a lot of action and opportunities to witness trains here. While waiting along the line can become tiresome, if not tedious, but there\u2019s often something about to happen at East Deerfield.<\/p>\n

The location above crossovers at the throat to the yard, this combined with yard leads and engine house tracks, plus the junction with the Deerfield Loop (that connects with the Connecticut River Line) west of the bridge make for some fascinating track work.<\/p>\n

Elevation is always a plus.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s ample parking nearby.<\/p>\n

The light in early morning and late evening here can be excellent. I\u2019ve made some wonderful fog photos here, as well countless morning and evening glint shots. How about blazing foggy glint? Yep done that here too. And about ten days ago I got a rainbow.<\/p>\n

The afternoon of June 29, 2017 was dull and overcast. Mike Gardner and I had arrived in pursuit of Pan Am Southern\u2019s symbol freight 28N (carrying autoracks and JB Hunt containers). We\u2019d also heard that its counterpart 287 (empty autoracks from Ayer, Massachusetts) was on its way west.<\/p>\n

As it happened the two trains met just east of the bridge.<\/p>\n

I exposed a series of black & white photos on Kodak Tri-X using a Leica IIIa with 21mm Super Angulon lens, while simultaneously working in digitally color with my FujiFilm X-T1 with 90mm lens.<\/p>\n

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Photographer Mike Gardner on the famed ‘Railfans Bridge’ at East Deerfield.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pan Am Southern’s symbol freight 28N with a Crescent Cab approaches East Deerfield Yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Auto racks roll under McClelland Farm Road at East Deerfield West.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pan Am Southern 28N (left) meets its counterpart, symbol freight 287 at East Deerfield yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the attractions of the East Deerfield bridge is the action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Too many photos here? Undoubtedly. But I bet they age well. Especially when the old vantage point has finally been demolished.<\/p>\n

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This is the third in my series of farewell posts on the famed East Deerfield \u2018Railfan\u2019s Bridge.\u2019 The McClelland Farm Road bridge over the Boston & Maine tracks at the west end of East Deerfield Yard (near Greenfield, Massachusetts) has been a popular place to photograph trains since the steam era. Work has begun to … Continue reading Overcast Afternoon at East Deerfield\u2014June 29, 2017.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18826,"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":true,"_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":[3814,242,241,104,883,3031],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601454.jpg?fit=1838%2C1088","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4TJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831"}],"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=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18842,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/18842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}