{"id":31393,"date":"2021-06-15T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31393"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:58:46","slug":"revisiting-the-moosehead-sub-recon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/revisiting-the-moosehead-sub-recon\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Moosehead Sub\u2014Recon."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first visit to Canadian Pacific Railway&#8217;s Moosehead Subdivision was in the summer of 1972, when my family rented a cabin on Moosehead Lake near the East Outlet of the Kennebec River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1980s and 1990s, I made several excursions to this beautiful and sometime elusive railroad line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years this line has changed ownership several times, and CP Rail has recently re-acquired the historic route, and since then I&#8217;d been itching to get back up there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over this last weekend, my Fianc\u00e9, Kris Sabbatino and I made the drive from Center Conway, NH to Moosehead, Maine where we stayed at the very same campground that I had visited as a child back in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Train operations are sparse and I wanted to make the most of trains if and when we caught them on the move. So first we investigated locations near our cabin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few photos exposed using my FujiFilm XT1 of the East Outlet Bridge of the Kennebec River at Moosehead, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"31399\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/revisiting-the-moosehead-sub-recon\/cp_rail_east_outlet_bridge_dscf1848\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CP_Rail_East_Outlet_Bridge_DSCF1848.jpg?fit=1400%2C933\" data-orig-size=\"1400,933\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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