{"id":27287,"date":"2019-07-07T07:47:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27287"},"modified":"2019-07-07T07:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T11:58:28","slug":"fortuity-at-bardwells-ferry-lenticular-truss-and-an-eastward-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fortuity-at-bardwells-ferry-lenticular-truss-and-an-eastward-freight\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortuity at Bardwell\u2019s Ferry: Lenticular Truss and an Eastward Freight."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or call this ‘DASH-9 in the Woods’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday (July 5, 2019), I was rambling about with my cousin Stella\u2014visiting from California\u2014when we paused at Bardwell\u2019s Ferry,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ferry is long gone. Instead a well-preserved pin-connected lenticular truss bridge carries the road over Massachusetts’ Deerfield River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we were photographing the bridge and river, I thought my ears tricked me; the rushing water sounded remarkably like a distant freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this wasn\u2019t a serious rail-photo excursion, I hadn\u2019t brought my scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back to the car to get my omnipresent notebook, when I heard a whistle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flashers on Bardwell\u2019s Ferry road illuminated, and sure enough there was an eastward Pan Am Southern freight approaching!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my FujiFilm XT1 with 18-135mm zoom lens, I exposed this series of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume that this was symbol freight 16R which forwards Norfolk Southern traffic from Enola (Pennsylvania) and East Binghamton (New York) to Pan Am\u2019s East Deerfield Yard. Without a scanner or positive confirmation, guess is all I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An eastward Pan-Am Southern freight approaches the crossing of Bardwell’s Ferry Road.
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I anticipated the window of sunlight east of the crossing and adjusted my exposure accordingly.
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As the freight approached, I pulled back the zoom lens to widen my field of view. Not all railroad photos can be exposed in full sunlight, but in this case I think the shadowy effect works well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Or call this ‘DASH-9 in the Woods’. Friday (July 5, 2019), I was rambling about with my cousin Stella\u2014visiting from California\u2014when we paused at Bardwell\u2019s Ferry,. The ferry is long gone. Instead a well-preserved pin-connected lenticular truss bridge carries the road over Massachusetts’ Deerfield River. While we were photographing the bridge and river, I thought … Continue reading Fortuity at Bardwell\u2019s Ferry: Lenticular Truss and an Eastward Freight.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[5788,4537,3351,7535,59,883,2046],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pan_Am_16R_at_Bardwells_Ferry_DSCF8527.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-767","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287"}],"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=27287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27294,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions\/27294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}