{"id":20045,"date":"2017-12-22T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2017-12-22T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T17:36:27","slug":"housatonic-pittsfield-massachusetts-3-photos-from-tracking-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/housatonic-pittsfield-massachusetts-3-photos-from-tracking-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Housatonic, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; 3 Photos from Tracking the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is really about clouds and change.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, fellow photographer Mike Gardner and I were in Pittsfield, Massachusetts waiting for the arrival of the Housatonic Railroad freight from Canaan.<\/p>\n

Standing on a bridge completed in 2016, we were at the center of what had been a massive General Electric plant, but has since been closed and largely demolished.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in my older photos, I have a photo of an eastward Conrail freight led by GE diesels passing through this plant that had straddled the Boston & Albany mainline. I also have a photo of the Alco switcher that worked the plant.<\/p>\n

The Housatonic freight arrived and paused to make its drop for CSX. The sun emerged from the clouds and I made these views.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 view. The buildings in the distance were once part of the GE complex that occupied this site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wide angle view with Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This new bridge is more than a vantage point, but part of the story. I like the extreme depth of field in this view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For me the train is incidental. The dramatic cloudy sky with the ruins of the GE Plant tell the story. A story so often repeated across New England.<\/p>\n

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This post is really about clouds and change. Two weeks ago, fellow photographer Mike Gardner and I were in Pittsfield, Massachusetts waiting for the arrival of the Housatonic Railroad freight from Canaan. Standing on a bridge completed in 2016, we were at the center of what had been a massive General Electric plant, but has … Continue reading Housatonic, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; 3 Photos from Tracking the Light<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20044,"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":[48],"tags":[4486,4484,4485,4483,41],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Housatonic_Pittsfield_MA_P1710194.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045"}],"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=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20047,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions\/20047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}