{"id":35661,"date":"2023-03-17T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35661"},"modified":"2023-03-16T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:07:21","slug":"mbta-at-cp-4-allston-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-at-cp-4-allston-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTA at CP 4-Allston, Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In preparation for my Keynote speech on the history of New England Railroading to the New England Rail Club last night, I culled through hundreds of representative images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulimately, I displayed 67 slides, including a variety of 19th century views and maps, along with more than a dozen of my own images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the photos that I didn&#8217;t display was this photo of an MBTA train taking the crossover on the Boston Line at CP4 near Allston, Massachusetts on October 6, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My talk was attended by 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