{"id":20175,"date":"2018-01-12T06:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20175"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:23:08","slug":"at-the-diamond-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/at-the-diamond-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer\u2014 Then (again) and Now."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d mentioned that among the top ten reasons that I wanted to make photographs in 2018 was to revisit old places to make dramatic then and now comparisons.<\/p>\n

This is a work in progress. And I’ve published similar comparisons for Palmer previously.<\/p>\n

Below are several views looking west from the Palmer station toward the diamond crossing.<\/p>\n

Over the decades I\u2019ve made hundreds of photos here.<\/p>\n

The vintage photo dates from Spring 1984. This view works well for modern companions because I conveniently left lots of room to the right of the locomotive while including details such as the code lines.<\/p>\n

The color New England Central views were exposed on January 3, 2018.<\/p>\n

These are imperfect comparisons because I\u2019m not working from precisely the same angle, nor am I using equivalent lenses.<\/p>\n

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1984 view exposed with a Leica IIIA with 50mm Summitar. Central Vermont northward local freight crossing Conrail’s former Boston & Albany line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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For point of reference the old eastward Boston & Albany mainline is in the same place, as are the rails used to hold the old Palmer sign in the black & white photo that is now a white box with a yellow stripe near the second locomotive in the color view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Compare the track arrangements between the 1984 and 2018 views.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Enlarged version of the 1984 view. The old westward main was removed from service in summer 1986, and later lifted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 1984 views were made with a 50mm Leica Summitar, while the more recent views were exposed digitally using a Fujinon 90mm lens. However, I also made a few color slides using a 40mm Canon lens. But those are pending processing.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d mentioned that among the top ten reasons that I wanted to make photographs in 2018 was to revisit old places to make dramatic then and now comparisons. This is a work in progress. And I’ve published similar comparisons for Palmer previously. Below are several views looking west from the Palmer station toward the diamond … Continue reading Palmer\u2014 Then (again) and Now.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20174,"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":[10,48],"tags":[3804,1067,30,462,1401],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CV-RS-11s-Palmer-1984-Brian-Solomon-898094.jpg?fit=1784%2C1120","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175"}],"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=20175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20213,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions\/20213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}