{"id":35647,"date":"2023-03-14T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35647"},"modified":"2023-03-13T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:54:05","slug":"blue-line-blues-and-restoration-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/blue-line-blues-and-restoration-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Line Blues and Restoration Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A month ago, Kris and I drove by the Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I loved this place as a kid. The old railway cars and trolleys fascinated me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our most recent visit, I found it stange to find a pair of Boston Blue Line cars on ‘Restoration Row’. It used to be that the cars at Seashore were all ancient relics from a time before I was born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lumix LX7 photo; February 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lumix LX7 photo; February 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I applaud the museum’s foresight to have preserved these Blue Line cars for posterity and I hope they obtain the necessary resources to restore them. Maybe some day we’ll go for a spin on them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999, I made a color slide of similar cars at work on Boston’s Blue Line, before I boarded a flight across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blue Line cars at the Airport Station in June 1999. Exposed on Fujichrome slide film with a Nikon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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