{"id":29828,"date":"2020-09-16T07:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29828"},"modified":"2020-09-16T07:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:12:22","slug":"west-springfield-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/west-springfield-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"West Springfield at Dusk."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In July 1983, ,Bob Buck and I were attending a weekly summer gathering of the West Springfield Train Watchers, a semi-formal group consisting of mostly retired railroaders who assembled with permission of the railroad at the west end of Conrail’s West Springfield, Massachusetts yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say ‘semi-formal’ because member Norvel Parker printed cards for all the members. Somewhere I still have mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toward the end of the evening, I made this photo with my Leica 3A of a westward freight making a pick-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In later years, I photographed some of the members, which was probably far more valuable as a record, than making photos of the trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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