{"id":23070,"date":"2018-12-14T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23070"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:58:46","slug":"east-deerfield-railfans-bridge-update-views-from-the-new-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/east-deerfield-railfans-bridge-update-views-from-the-new-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"East Deerfield Railfan\u2019s Bridge Update: Views from the New Bridge."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The old McClelland Farm Road bridge over the Boston & Maine tracks at the west end of East Deerfield Yard (near Greenfield, Massachusetts) had been a popular place to photograph trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guilford SD26 632 leads EDRP (East Deerfield-Rouses Point) westbound at McClelland Farm Road on August 30, 1987. Kodachrome slide exposed using a Leica M2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Known colloquially as the \u2018Railfan\u2019s Bridge,\u2019 this vantage point had been featured in articles in TRAINS Magazine, Railpace and other popular literature for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than a year a new bridge, parallel to the old bridge, has been under construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, December 6, 2018, photographer Mike Gardner and I made a brief visit to East Deerfield to inspect progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old bridge was still in place, while the new bridge was open and mostly complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inevitably, fences will be installed, and how these may affect photography has yet to been seen. However, looking to the east, the view has been complicated by the erection of new electrical lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are a few views of the new and old McClelland Farm Road bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panoramic view of the new and old bridges.

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The view looking west from the new bridge.
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Here’s the sorry state of the old bridge. How many thousands of photos were made from this span?


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Looking east from the new bridge.


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The view from the new bridge looking toward the East Deerfield Loop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Last week, December 6, 2018, photographer Mike Gardner and I made a brief visit to East Deerfield to inspect progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23076,"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":[4226,4537,241,7535,82,3031],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/East_Deerfield_Bridge_DSCF9395.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-606","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070"}],"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=23070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23134,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions\/23134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}