Shoot Your Friends
Well their shadows anyway!
Credit for this shot goes to Mike Sullivan who spaced us all out on the South Street bridge to capture the silhouettes of the New Jersey foamer (err buff where they come from) gang up for the train show weekend. The shadows belong to Mike, Joey D'Amico, Marc Samuelson, and me. Insisting on being different off to the left and not casting a shadow was Vito Filomeno, and off to the right avoiding us all was John Kittredge. Great memories of a fabulous weekend with good friends. Come back soon guys for more B&A bongas, it's the best show in New England!
The standard pair of CSXT Gevos lead a non standard train by one of the truly iconic railroad locations in all of New England. We are near milepost 75 in CSXT's Boston Sub (the ex Boston and Albany mainline) in the Village of West Warren alongside the Quaboag River. This is train G104-28 an empty unit grain train off Pan Am at Barbers (Worcester) destined for the BNSF in Cicero, IL. Historically these unit trains to and from Ardent Mills in Ayer were interchanged in Rotterdam Junction and ran the length of Pan Am's ex Boston and Maine route and they were never seen on the old B&A. But due to Pan Am's ongoing crew shortage woes they have more frequently been taking this routing which may very well become permanent if CSXT's acquisition of Pan Am is approved by the STB this year. So while this was my first time shooting a unit grain train on the B&A it probably won't be my last!
The dam here was built in 1890 to power the adjacent Wright Cotton Mill complex and the waterfall it created has been beloved by photographers ever since. Remarkably, the mill complex with buildings constructed in stages between 1866 and 1912 remained in industrial use until 2006.
Warren, Massachusetts
Sunday January 30, 2022
Shoot Your Friends
Well their shadows anyway!
Credit for this shot goes to Mike Sullivan who spaced us all out on the South Street bridge to capture the silhouettes of the New Jersey foamer (err buff where they come from) gang up for the train show weekend. The shadows belong to Mike, Joey D'Amico, Marc Samuelson, and me. Insisting on being different off to the left and not casting a shadow was Vito Filomeno, and off to the right avoiding us all was John Kittredge. Great memories of a fabulous weekend with good friends. Come back soon guys for more B&A bongas, it's the best show in New England!
The standard pair of CSXT Gevos lead a non standard train by one of the truly iconic railroad locations in all of New England. We are near milepost 75 in CSXT's Boston Sub (the ex Boston and Albany mainline) in the Village of West Warren alongside the Quaboag River. This is train G104-28 an empty unit grain train off Pan Am at Barbers (Worcester) destined for the BNSF in Cicero, IL. Historically these unit trains to and from Ardent Mills in Ayer were interchanged in Rotterdam Junction and ran the length of Pan Am's ex Boston and Maine route and they were never seen on the old B&A. But due to Pan Am's ongoing crew shortage woes they have more frequently been taking this routing which may very well become permanent if CSXT's acquisition of Pan Am is approved by the STB this year. So while this was my first time shooting a unit grain train on the B&A it probably won't be my last!
The dam here was built in 1890 to power the adjacent Wright Cotton Mill complex and the waterfall it created has been beloved by photographers ever since. Remarkably, the mill complex with buildings constructed in stages between 1866 and 1912 remained in industrial use until 2006.
Warren, Massachusetts
Sunday January 30, 2022