{"id":39404,"date":"2024-06-26T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39404"},"modified":"2024-06-26T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T02:27:53","slug":"brief-visit-to-a-familiar-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brief-visit-to-a-familiar-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Visit to a Familiar Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the years, I’ve exposed thousands of railroad photos in Palmer, Massachusetts. I started photographing there in 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris and I paid a brief visit to Palmer on our trip to Massachusetts in mid-June. This was primarily a social call, and we had limited time to look at the railroad, but we made a few photos in Palmer at familiar places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, Palmer was in its heyday in the mid-1990s, when Conrail was at its zenith running about 15 freights daily in each direction, and Central Vermont\/New England Central could be found working the yards here at any hour of the day or night; when Amtrak operated 6-8 trains daily through Palmer, and the Mass-Central had a busy intermodal container facility in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is much<\/em> quieter these days. We didn’t see a wheel turn, although Genesee & Wyoming’s New England Central had several locomotives at the ready in its yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The undergrowth has encroached and there are leafy vines getting ever closer to the tracks. Yet, I was happy to see a set of new CSX gondolas in the NECR yard carrying large pieces of stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos exposed using my Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(For old time sake, I also took a couple of color slides).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Site of the Boston & Albany Palmer Freight House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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