{"id":4704,"date":"2013-11-29T05:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T10:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2013-11-26T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:56:02","slug":"daily-post-boston-maine-meru-february-10-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-boston-maine-meru-february-10-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Post: Boston & Maine MERU, February 10, 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEagle Bridge and Petersburg, New York.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the last couple of days, I\u2019ve displayed contemporary images I made on Pan American Railways lines. Today, I\u2019ve dug deep into my archives and pulled some negatives I exposed in the same territory back in 1985.<\/p>\n

February 10, 1985 was a busy day on Guilford\u2019s Boston & Maine lines. I was traveling with John Peters and Norman Yellin and we made it all the way to Mechanicville, New York, having started in the Millers River Valley, east of East Deerfield.<\/p>\n

\"Guilford<\/a>
Boston & Maine’s eastward MERU hits the crossing at Eaglebridge, New York on the evening of February 10, 1985. I was fighting the light, but despite this handicap I managed to make a decent exposure with my dad’s M4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Boston<\/a>
Boston & Maine’s eastward MERU passes the old station at Eaglebridge, New York on the evening of February 10, 1985. This has long been a favorite photo; for me it really captures the character of the B&M west end as it looked in the 1980s. The motion blur on the first car adds to the effect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toward the end of the day, we chased B&M\u2019s MERU (Mechanicville to Rumford, Maine), photographing it at several locations, including Eaglebridge and Petersburg, New York.<\/p>\n

Since last week I ended a chase of a Pan Am freight at the crossing near Petersburg (east of Petersburg Junction where the old Rutland \u2018Corkscrew Line\u2019 crossed the B&M), I though these images would make an interesting comparison.<\/p>\n

\"Boston<\/a>
Boston & Maine’s eastward MERU hits the crossing near Petersburg, New York. The angle of the track has always made this an awkward place to photograph moving trains. Many years ago, B&M had a split grade through here, with the other main track located on the far side of the valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pan<\/a>
Here’s Pan Am’s westward EDRJ at the very same crossing near Petersburg (albeit a bit farther back from the tracks). I exposed this last week on November 21, 2013 using my Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where last week, Paul Goewey and I were following a westward freight, 28 years ago we were traveling eastbound. In both situations the light was fading.<\/p>\n

I exposed the vintage images on Kodak B&W film using my father\u2019s Leica M4 with a 35mm Summicron lens. Unfortunately, my notes from the day don\u2019t include what exposures I used, nor how I processed the film. Ironically, I had the M4 with me last week too, but the shutter was giving me difficulty so I had to rely on my digital cameras!<\/p>\n

See: Daily Post: Boston & Maine Revisited, PART 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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Eagle Bridge and Petersburg, New York. Over the last couple of days, I\u2019ve displayed contemporary images I made on Pan American Railways lines. Today, I\u2019ve dug deep into my archives and pulled some negatives I exposed in the same territory back in 1985. February 10, 1985 was a busy day on Guilford\u2019s Boston & Maine … Continue reading Daily Post: Boston & Maine MERU, February 10, 1985<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3814,242,682,213,1629,43,7535,1574,219,1631,1628,1630,7,5,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BM-Eaglebridge-NY-Feb-1985.jpg?fit=600%2C382","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1dS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}