{"id":30074,"date":"2020-10-29T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30074"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:23:36","slug":"belfast-maine-1980-1997-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/belfast-maine-1980-1997-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast, Maine\u20141980-1997-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wasn’t prepared for what I saw last month when Kris Sabbatino and I re-visited Belfast, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1980, my father and I paid two visits to Belfast, one of which involved a train ride to Burnham Junction and back on the Belfast & Moosehead Lake freight. On those trips I made photos of B&ML’s yard and roundhouse on black & white film using my Leica IIIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 1997, I revisited Belfast, and found the B&ML yard intact, but ghostly quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d read that the good citizens of Belfast despised the railroad yard and its environment and that they had evicted the railroad that the city had once owned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was shocked of how completely this quaint delightful compact railroad yard along the Belfast waterfront had been so totally erased from the scene. It has been replaced with a sandy parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was unprepared because I had not brought with me the photos from my earlier visits. I found it very difficult to recall exactly where I had stood. The landmarks I knew existed only in my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tracks, the structures, the trains and the character of the environment that I seen in my earlier visits were now gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, I’ll need to return again with my earlier photos in hand and attempt a more accurate series of ‘then and now’ images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The views below are looking north. My attempts to recreate the roundhouse scenes looking west are not good enough to reproduce here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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August 1997<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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September 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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September 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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