{"id":29185,"date":"2020-05-25T08:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29185"},"modified":"2020-05-25T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:26:03","slug":"vestige-of-the-beechers-falls-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vestige-of-the-beechers-falls-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Vestige of the Beechers Falls Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The old Beechers Falls Branch was a vestige of Maine Central\u2019s foray into Quebec that survived on Maine Central\u2019s system in later years as a truncated  appendage accessed by trackage rights over Boston & Maine and Grand Trunk lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Maine Central gave up, various short lines had operated the trackage. Today the line to Beechers Falls, Vermont is a trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beechers Falls itself is a curiosity on a narrow strip of land wedged tightly between New Hampshire and Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday (May 23, 2020) Kris Sabbatino and I explored this abandoned line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these photos where the Branch crossed the upper reaches of the Connecticut River at Canaan, Vermont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with a Nikkormat FT with an f2.8 24mm Nikkor lens, I exposed Ilford HP5 400 ISO black & white film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although I intended to process this in Ilford ID11, yesterday, I realized that I was all out of that developer, so instead I worked with Kodak HC110, which I mixed as \u2018dilution B\u2019 (1-32 with water). Before my primary process, I mixed a very weak \u2018presoak\u2019 (1-300 with water and Kodak Photoflo) and soaked the film for five minutes, then introduced my primary developer for 4 minutes 30 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night Kris and I scanned the negatives using an Epson V500 flatbed scanner with Epson\u2019s provided software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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