{"id":4325,"date":"2013-11-02T05:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2013-11-01T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:35:03","slug":"mbta-boston-october-27-2013-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-boston-october-27-2013-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: MBTA Boston October 27, 2013\u2014Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSunday Afternoon and Evening.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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At Tower 1, MBTA 1123 shoves toward Boston<\/a>‘s North Station<\/a>. MBTA diesel fleet will soon be transformed by 40 new locomotives built by MPI using General Electric components. As is often the case with fleet upgrading, older locomotives may be withdrawn as newer ones come on line. Lumix LX3 photo modified in post processing to improve contrast and color balance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston gets some great light and evening can be one of the best times to make photographs.<\/p>\n

Sunday October 27th<\/sup> was clear in the morning, but clouded up a bit during midday. Towards evening the clouds melted away and a rich golden light prevailed.<\/p>\n

\"MBTA\"<\/a>
MBTA 1034 crosses the drawbridges near North Station as it shoves its train toward the terminal station. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"MBTA\"<\/a>
MBTA F40PH 1025 departs Boston’s North Station on Sunday afternoon. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Boston\"<\/a>
Boston Duck Boat. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"MBTA<\/a>
Orange Line<\/a> rapid transit cars in the early evening light. Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Boston<\/a>
Boston skyline. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"MBTA\"<\/a>
Orange Line trains meet north of Boston on October 27, 2013. Little remains of the old Orange Line elevated route that I remember from my earliest days. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tim Doherty and I photographed operations out of North Station as well as the north end of the Orange Line rapid transit, then went toward Boston College, where the Commonwealth Avenue branch of the Green Line<\/a> crosses over the former Boston & Albany mainline.<\/p>\n

The fading light of evening made for a dramatic skyline. I didn\u2019t have my tripod with me, so instead racked up the ISO on my digital cameras. With my 7D I can work with a 4000 ISO rating<\/a> and still get some very presentable images.<\/p>\n

My memories of the Commonwealth Avenue line extend back more than 40 years, and my photography of the line nearly that long.<\/p>\n

In the late-1970s, I made a point of exposed Kodachrome slides of the PCC\u2019s that were then waning on that route. I never could have guessed than in 2013 some PCC\u2019s would survive in daily service on the Mattapan-Ashmont line.<\/p>\n

See yesterday\u2019s post for more Boston images: MBTA Sunday October 27, 2013\u2014Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MBTA\"<\/a>
An inbound Commonwealth Avenue line streetcar makes for a modern silhouette. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"MBTA<\/a>
Green Line streetcars meet on the Commonwealth Avenue Line. Boston’s iconic Prudential building looms large above the city. Canon EOS 7D with f2.0 100mm lens. Exposed at f2.8 1\/125th of a second at ISO 3200, photo file adjusted in post processing to improve contrast and color balance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Commonwealth Avenue at sunset.Canon EOS 7D with f2.0 100mm lens. Exposed at f2.8 1\/60th of a second at ISO 4000-hand held.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See my new book\u00a0North American Railroad Family Trees<\/a>\u00a0for discussion of the evolution MBTA and other commuter rail networks.<\/p>\n

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