{"id":21753,"date":"2018-07-31T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21753"},"modified":"2018-07-31T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:05:21","slug":"the-big-bore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-big-bore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bore."},"content":{"rendered":"

In New England, ordinary people with virtually no knowledge of railroads are aware of \u2018The Tunnel\u2019.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll ask me, \u2018Have ya been up to that Housantonic Tunnel?\u2019 Or comment, \u2018That Hoosick Tunnel, by North Adams, it\u2019s the longest in the world, Right?\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to speak with an etymologist, or someone with a deeper understanding of the evolution of New England names. I\u2019ll bet that Hoosick, Housatonic and Hoosac all have the same root, but I\u2019m more curious to know about how\u00a0<\/em>and when\u00a0<\/em>the variations in spelling originated.<\/p>\n

But, it\u2019s really the tunnel that interests me; 4.75 miles of inky cool darkness, occupied by legends, stories and ghosts and serving a corridor for trains below the mountain.<\/p>\n

The other day, Mike Gardner and I made a pilgrimage up to New England\u2019s longest tunnel; Boston & Maine\u2019s famous Hoosac. (Please note correct spelling).<\/p>\n

While waiting for westward freight EDRJ, that was on its way from East Deerfield, I exposed these photos with my FujiFilm XT1.<\/p>\n

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Telephoto view to draw in the East Portal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The portal can\u2019t be too dark, but the shafts of sunlight streaming down can easily be over exposed. As a result, I exposed for the light, than adjusted my RAW files in post processing to make for a more balanced image. This isn\u2019t \u2018fixing the photo,\u2019 it\u2019s maximizing the data capture and adjusting it for the most pleasing result.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In New England, ordinary people with virtually no knowledge of railroads are aware of \u2018The Tunnel\u2019. They\u2019ll ask me, \u2018Have ya been up to that Housantonic Tunnel?\u2019 Or comment, \u2018That Hoosick Tunnel, by North Adams, it\u2019s the longest in the world, Right?\u2019 I\u2019d like to speak with an etymologist, or someone with a deeper understanding … Continue reading The Big Bore.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21754,"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],"tags":[4841,4840,82,3634],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hoosac_Tunnel_East_Portal_DSCF0665-1.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753"}],"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=21753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21819,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions\/21819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}