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GP9 at Ware—1987.
The other day I was digging around for some Boston & Albany negatives that I’d exposed back in the 1980s in preparation for a program that I’m putting together for the Mass Bay RRE. Among the negatives I found was a roll of Kodak TMY (T-Max 100) black & white film that I’d exposed with my father’s Rollei Model-T on December 28, 1987. I’d followed the Mass-Central freight from Palmer up to Ware…
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Ware River Branch—November 2019.
Ware River Branch—November 2019.
Last November, photographer Mike Gardner and I paid a visit to the Mass-Central and caught the northward freight on its journey over the Ware River Branch from Palmer to South Barre.
Among the photos I exposed was this view at Gilbertville, Massachusetts, working with a Nikon F3 loaded with Ilford HP5 film.
Over the years, I exposed countless photographs along this former Boston & Albany…
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November Sunshine at South Barre; Mass Central GP38s Working the Old Spur.
November Sunshine at South Barre; Mass Central GP38s Working the Old Spur.
Here’s another pair of photos from ‘Super Tuesday’—November 26, 2019.
Fellow photographer Mike Gardner and I mopped up a few nice photographs on the north-end of the old Boston & Albany Ware River Branch.
These images were made on the spur that connects the branch with the Wildwood Reload on the far side of Route 32 at South Barre, Massachusetts.
I made both images using my…
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Mass-Central Reflections—Gilbertville, Massachusetts November 26, 2019.
Mass-Central Reflections—Gilbertville, Massachusetts November 26, 2019.
November 26, 2019 was one of those very productive days.
Following my earlier successes last Thursday with New England Central at Stafford Springs, and CSX at Palmer and West Warren, Mike Gardner and I went to breakfast at Girly’s Grille in Palmer, timing our departure so that would could intercept Mass-Central freight on its way up the Ware River Line to South Barre.
We caught up with…
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Mass-Central along Route 181 in Palmer.
Mass-Central along Route 181 in Palmer.
On the way toward the interchange in Palmer, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Central’s former Boston & Albany Ware River Branch follows and crosses state Route 181.
So often I have driven this way.
Catching a train here isn’t especially difficult since it runs southbound most weekday afternoons, but making a photo without any highway traffic in the way can be really challenging.
All it…
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Sun in the Ware River Valley!
Sun in the Ware River Valley!
Last Monday, May 6, 2019, was the first properly sunny day after many days of gloomy overcast weather.
In the afternoon, Paul Goewey, John Peters and I followed the Mass-Central Railroad’s line northward toward South Barre. We intercepted the southward freight. This was led by GP38 1750 with the short hood in the lead.
At Ware, it worked a short surviving segment of the old Central…
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Gilbertville: Mass-Central, the old Mills, and the Boston & Albany Station.
Gilbertville: Mass-Central, the old Mills, and the Boston & Albany Station.
It was a scene made for black & white; Monochrome in the Ware River Valley.
Last week, I exposed these views on HP5 using a Nikon F3 with 105mm Nikkor prime telephoto (not a zoom) at Gilbertville, Massachusetts.
I processed the film with two stage development to my custom tailored process and scanned the negatives using an Epson V750 flatbed scanner.
Psssst! Don’t be too…
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Mass-Central at Palmer, Massachusetts.
Mass-Central at Palmer, Massachusetts.
In theory, on any given weekday you ought to be able to make a representative photograph of Mass-Central’s local freight arriving in Palmer.
This goes on duty in the morning at Mass-Central’s Palmer yard, makes its run up the Ware River Valley and returns, typically dropping its interchange for CSX and New England Central at CSX’s former Boston & Albany yard.
However, catching a locomotive…
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