{"id":27030,"date":"2019-06-07T06:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27030"},"modified":"2019-06-06T09:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:23:49","slug":"near-the-end-of-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/near-the-end-of-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Near the End of the Line."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, I made these photos of disused former Boston &amp; Maine tracks north of Littleton, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This had been B&amp;M&#8217;s line that ran from Wells River, Vermont via Bath and Littleton to Whitefield, New Hampshire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The section from Littleton to Woodsville and Wells River had been abandoned and lifted in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abandoned railways make for forlorn photographs, that are sad yet compelling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4896\" 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