{"id":4974,"date":"2013-01-07T05:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T10:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T02:09:37","slug":"daily-post-fascinating-american-town-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-fascinating-american-town-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Fascinating American Town in Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRandom Slide Number 22.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Norfolk Southern SD70 2561 leads the westward empty Mt. Tom coal train at Hoosic Falls, New York on October 13, 2001. Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100 with an F3T with 24mm Nikkor lens. Shortly before the train entered the scene, a cloud diffused the sun. . . . Hey Tim, what was that you said just then?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What?<\/p>\n

Picking photos for Tracking the Light can be a challenge. Everyday since March 2013 I\u2019ve posted original photos to this site. That means, come rain or shine, I\u2019ve selected photos and put words to them.<\/p>\n

For this post, I though I\u2019d try something a bit different. Rather than work from my semi-organized labeled material, I selected a random box of raw and unsorted slides and just plucked out a photo randomly.<\/p>\n

While not the best picture in the box, frame 22 isn\u2019t a bad photo.<\/p>\n

I made it on the afternoon of October 13, 2001. Mike Gardner, Tim Doherty and I had been following an empty Mt Tom coal train since it left the plant near Northampton, Massachusetts. We caught it a multitude of locations on Guilford Rail System\u2019s former Boston & Maine.<\/p>\n

The last place we photographed this train was at Hoosic Falls, New York. My notes from the day read: \u201cHoosic Falls in a fascinating little American town\u2014once prosperous, but on a decline . . . certainly worth some photography.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so there you go! Random Slide Number 22, displayed and explained.<\/p>\n

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