B&A Relic
Nothing special here, but just wanted fill in a little gap in my Boston and Albany coverage. The passenger station only a few car lengths behind me is a much more photogenic prop so I prefer it when shooting here in town as I this shot: flic.kr/p/2n1VXDv
But I'm a sucker for all historic elements or anything to add visual interest to the scene so I needed at least one shot with the old brick freight house dating from the 1890s. Virtually every town had one of these back in the day, each with their own team track where boxcars of lcl (less than carload freight) were unloaded and stored for customers to come pick up. Of course those days are long past as the railroads retreated to doing what they are best at, hauling heavy bulk commodities, while consumer goods and perishables shifted to trucks and individual shipments became the drain of UPS, FedEx and now Amazon. Though most of these freight houses have long been rendered asunder, a few remain repurposed by new owners. I never got to see the large one that stood in Palmer into the late 1980s and none remain in any of the major cities along the route, but this one still stands in its original location witnessing the passage of a dozen trains a day, none that will ever again stop.
Here is one of those trains, CSXT train I022 (daily Syracuse to Worcester premium intermodal), hustling east past the stalwart structure at about MP 73.5 on what is now modern day CSXT's Boston Sub.
Warren, Massachusetts
Friday March 25, 2022
B&A Relic
Nothing special here, but just wanted fill in a little gap in my Boston and Albany coverage. The passenger station only a few car lengths behind me is a much more photogenic prop so I prefer it when shooting here in town as I this shot: flic.kr/p/2n1VXDv
But I'm a sucker for all historic elements or anything to add visual interest to the scene so I needed at least one shot with the old brick freight house dating from the 1890s. Virtually every town had one of these back in the day, each with their own team track where boxcars of lcl (less than carload freight) were unloaded and stored for customers to come pick up. Of course those days are long past as the railroads retreated to doing what they are best at, hauling heavy bulk commodities, while consumer goods and perishables shifted to trucks and individual shipments became the drain of UPS, FedEx and now Amazon. Though most of these freight houses have long been rendered asunder, a few remain repurposed by new owners. I never got to see the large one that stood in Palmer into the late 1980s and none remain in any of the major cities along the route, but this one still stands in its original location witnessing the passage of a dozen trains a day, none that will ever again stop.
Here is one of those trains, CSXT train I022 (daily Syracuse to Worcester premium intermodal), hustling east past the stalwart structure at about MP 73.5 on what is now modern day CSXT's Boston Sub.
Warren, Massachusetts
Friday March 25, 2022