{"id":38622,"date":"2024-03-19T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38622"},"modified":"2024-03-17T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T11:16:29","slug":"bostons-north-station-march-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bostons-north-station-march-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston&#8217;s North Station\u2014March 1982."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forty-two years ago, I accompanied my father to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked, and spend the day photographing railways in greater Boston using my 1930s-era Leica 3A with 50mm Leitz Summitar loaded with black &amp; white film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made this pair of photographs at MBTA&#8217;s North Station\u2014the old Boston &amp; Maine terminal that served trains to Fitchburg, Lowell, Haverhill, Ipswitch and Rockport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After so many years, the ordinary now seems exotic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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