{"id":29116,"date":"2020-05-12T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29116"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:32:05","slug":"remnant-of-the-bh-two-foot-gauge-at-harrison-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/remnant-of-the-bh-two-foot-gauge-at-harrison-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnant of the B&#038;H two foot Gauge at Harrison, Maine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The common-carrier Maine two-foot gauge railroads vanished from the scene many moons ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of months back, Dwight Smith pointed me to photo hanging on the wall of the North Conway ticket office that shows himself on a Bridgton &amp; Harrison train. \u201cThat  was taken of me eighty years ago when I was 15.\u201d Well that sort of puts things in perspective!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29117\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/remnant-of-the-bh-two-foot-gauge-at-harrison-maine\/bh_narrow_gauge_vestige_harrison_dscf0726\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29117\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?w=2560 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So on a recent photography adventure with Kris Sabbatino, we paused at Harrison, Maine, the most northerly point on the defunct Bridgton &amp; Harrison. Using my smart phone, I summoned a vintage USGS topographical map from the University of New Hampshire collection and used this to locate where the railroad had been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We checked a few locations, before I spotted this old causeway and bridge abutments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposed using my FujiFilm XT1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0015a3\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts EVERY day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, Dwight Smith pointed to photo hanging on the wall of the North Conway ticket office that shows himself on a Bridgton &#038; Harrison train. \u201cThat photo was taken of me eighty years ago when I was 15.\u201d Sort of puts things in perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29117,"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":[6296,6298,6115,6116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BH_Narrow_gauge_Vestige_Harrison_DSCF0726-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7zC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116"}],"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=29116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29118,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116\/revisions\/29118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}