![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601884-2.jpg\")
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Back in the mid-1980s, my friends and I made trips to Mechanicville, New York where the adjacent Boston & Maine and Delaware & Hudson yards lent to lots of action and a great variety of diesel locomotives.<\/p>\n
The yard was an early casualty of Guilford\u2019s short lived consolidation of B&M and D&H operations. By 1986 the yard was a ghost town.<\/p>\n
In more recent times a small portion of the yards were redeveloped for intermodal and auto-rack facilities, but very little of the sprawling trackage remains<\/p>\n
In December, I returned to Mechanicville with a Leica IIIA and Sumitar loaded with Kodak Tri-X in an effort to recreate the angles of photos I exposed in November 1984 using the same camera\/film combination.<\/p>\n
To aid this exercise, I scanned my old negatives and uploaded these to my iPhone. The viewfinder of the Leica IIIA presents difficulties as this is just a tiny window and not well suited to precision composition. (Topic for another day).<\/p>\n
Also complicating my comparisons was the fresh layer of snow in the 2017 views.<\/p>\n
In some places the only points of reference between \u2018then\u2019 and \u2018now\u2019 views are the electrical lines crossing the yard.<\/p>\n Back in the mid-1980s, my friends and I made trips to Mechanicville, New York where the adjacent Boston & Maine and Delaware & Hudson yards lent to lots of action and a great variety of diesel locomotives. The yard was an early casualty of Guilford\u2019s short lived consolidation of B&M and D&H operations. By 1986 … Continue reading Mechanicville, New York; Then and Now Part 1.<\/span> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Tracking the Light Posts Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"