{"id":8667,"date":"2014-10-22T02:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T06:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2014-10-22T07:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:55:40","slug":"hoosac-tunnel-march-4-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/hoosac-tunnel-march-4-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoosac Tunnel March 4, 2007."},"content":{"rendered":"

An Eastward Pan Am Railways Freight at East Portal.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I was working on my book North American Railroad Bridges<\/a> for Voyageur Press<\/a> and I\u2019d been communicating via E-mail with the late William D. Middleton regarding the particulars of certain spans and photographs of same.<\/p>\n

Bill asked a favor of me: He was working on article for TRAINS Magazine and hoped that I could travel to the Hoosac Tunnel to make some contemporary images to help illustrate his article.<\/p>\n

A few days later, I met Tim Doherty, Pat Yough and Otto Vondrak at East Deerfield for a day\u2019s photography. I needed some images of the former New Haven Railroad Whipple Truss span over the Connecticut River at Montague (now a walking trail).<\/p>\n

Later in the day we went west against an eastward freight. This provided me ample opportunity to photograph both east and west portals of Boston & Maine\u2019s famous tunnel under the spine of the Berkshires.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, the eastward freight was led by one of only two locomotives painted for Pan Am Railway at the time.<\/p>\n

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Pan Am Railways freight at East Portal on March 4, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the train approached and exited East Portal, I exposed a series of images. I sent the best of the slides to Bill via the US Postal Service. One of my photos, exposed with a wide-angle of the Pan Am Railway\u2019s GP40-2L emerging from the tunnel wearing the experimental light blue and black paint, appeared in Bill\u2019s TRAINS Magazine article.<\/p>\n

I prefer this view, moments before the freight exits the inky black depths of Hoosac Mountain. For me this better conveys the experience of watching a train at Hoosac Tunnel.<\/p>\n

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