{"id":5144,"date":"2014-02-26T05:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2014-02-26T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:48:07","slug":"daily-post-maine-central-alco-in-the-rain-at-north-walpole-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-maine-central-alco-in-the-rain-at-north-walpole-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Maine Central Alco in the Rain at North Walpole, New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking in the Whole Scene.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My father taught me to make railway scenes, and not merely images of equipment. I did just that on this cold, wet, rainy day, when I photographed Maine Central Alco RS-11 crossing Route 12 in North Walpole, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

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Maine Central 802, one of the railroad\u2019s two Alco RS-11\u2019s was on loan to Green Mountain Railroad on November 25, 1983. It was raining hard when I exposed this view of it crossing Route 12 in North Walpole, New Hampshire using my Leica 3A loaded with Kodak Tri-X. For me, the rain, the locomotive and the highway were all part of the scene. I\u2019ve framed the locomotive in the grade crossing signals. To the left is Green Mountain’s former Boston & Maine roundhouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019d traveled with Paul Goewey to Bellows Falls on the morning of November 25, 1983, specifically to photograph this locomotive. For reasons I can\u2019t recall (if I ever knew), Green Mountain had borrowed Maine Central 802 to work its daily freight XR-1, that ran to Rutland over the former Rutland Railroad.<\/p>\n

Despite the gloomy conditions this was something of an event, and I recall that several photographers had convened at Bellows Falls to document 802\u2019s travels.<\/p>\n

Green Mountain\u2019s roundhouse is in North Walpole, just across the Connecticut River from Bellows Falls, and I made this image from the east bank as the engine switched cars.<\/p>\n

With this image I was trying to convey that this locomotive was in an unusual place by putting it in a distinctive scene.<\/p>\n

Once XR-1 was underway, Paul and I followed it toward Rutland. The weather deteriorated and rain turned to snow. By the time we reached Ludlow, the snow had become heavy; we were cold, wet, and tired, having been up since 4:30 am, and so ended the day\u2019s photography.<\/p>\n

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Taking in the Whole Scene. My father taught me to make railway scenes, and not merely images of equipment. I did just that on this cold, wet, rainy day, when I photographed Maine Central Alco RS-11 crossing Route 12 in North Walpole, New Hampshire. I\u2019d traveled with Paul Goewey to Bellows Falls on the morning … Continue reading DAILY POST: Maine Central Alco in the Rain at North Walpole, New Hampshire<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[3814,1848,1749,1490,7535,256,29,1763,1847,236,1414,1415,1846,7,5,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MEC_802_North_Walpole_NH_No.jpg?fit=800%2C506","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1kY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144"}],"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=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}