view out my apt. back window, Taken with a Brownie Target 620 film camera. I am still amazed to get any results with such a simple camera with one shutter speed and aperture.

late 1980's, reprint from 35mm to paper negative and then contact print and a repost with a few changes

took this a year ago today.

that was a good day.

there was lots of pink.

Been up for a while. Large pieces but in a tough place to photograph.

Photos from On the Road and Under the Tobin are now on display at the Front Street Coffeehouse in Salem, MA. If you're in the area be sure to stop in, grab a cup of coffee, and check out my work.

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painted over.

Allston

Another from my Tops of 2018 folder I'm just getting around to adding here. This train was certainly one of the highlights of the year, which is why so many made it into my tops list.

I'm sure the reason this was such a highlight is because one of my regrets from the old days growing up in New England is that I never photographed any Conrail freight trains on the east end of the Boston Line. I spent a LOT of time in Worcester and Palmer and did shoot trains in North Grafton and Framingham. And while I paid a few memorable visits to Beacon Park yard I never photographed trains in the 17 miles through the suburbs between Allston west to Framingham.

Alas by the time I moved back freight trains were gone east of CP21 excepting the B721 local to Everett because Conrail's successor CSXT had pulled up stakes in the intervening years and the last thru freights called on Boston in August 2013. Since then all intermodal traffic has terminated at Worcester and only a single daily manifest continued on to Framingham...but east of there was left only MBTA trains, the Lakeshores, and B721.

So I never thought I'd get to shoot a 'freight' train on the east end of the Boston and Albany. And while technically I haven't but this is a reasonable facsimile because though it looks like a CSXT train it's actually a Keolis work train. In the late spring of 2018 Keolis (my employer) had a welded train delivered to dump rail along the Worcester Line and the Franklin Branch. Being short of power for a work train I suggested that we see about a short term lease of the CSXT power. This was a very unusual move, but Will Scopa in our engineering department made it happen and SD40-2 8831 and GP40-2 6234 stayed with the train while being operated by Keolis crews.

I made a point this time to get out and shoot this move at multiple locations between Worcester and Boston in a feeble attempt to make up for what I never did in the old days.

Here is the work train eastbound at about MP 4.2 on Main 2 of the Worcester Line in the Allston neighborhood of the city. In the background the rear of the train is passing through the new Boston Landing station while at right are the rusty forlorn leads at the west end of what was once the Beacon Park Yard. These leads used to hum with switchers and freights arriving and departing around the clock but have been rusty and silent since the last train left in August 2013. Other than the occasional work train that clears up and parks on one of the few remaining tracks everything else just passes by on the mainline.

They are passing the historic former Boston and Albany depot at left that for many years has served as a restaurant, though as of 2022 it is vacant. To see some great historic photos of this circa 1887 Richardsonion Romanesque station check out this link: www.bahistory.org/AllstonDepot.html

Boston, Massachusetts

Friday June 15, 2018

in the bathroom of herrell's ice cream shop in allston

Before using old cameras and film ( Kodak brownie and 620 film in this case ) was a thing as far as I knew... I was just curious what it would look like

Pentax ZX7, expired Ektachrome 200

Boston, Massachusetts

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allston

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Apartment blocks line Harvard Avenue near Brainerd Road on a quiet summer afternoon in the city's Allston neighborhood. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Apartamentos se sobre Avenida Harvard cerca de Calle Brainerd en una tranquila tarde de verano en el barrio de Allston de la ciudad. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.

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win some you lose some

The Beantown Companies, Harvard Avenue, Allston, Ma.06/30/18

Brighton Ave. Allston, MA ca. 1976

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my favorite store in the Boston area, Diskovery, is moving, after being a landmark bookstore for years.

they are moving & it's the end of an era. Yolanda, the crazy, awesome, generous, sweet, fast talking, hard to understand lady is moving her two cats and millions of books and records down the street.

the times, they are a changing.

i have taken many pics of her cats & window.

this is one of them:

www.flickr.com/photos/kandykorn/101902302/

and

one of Yolanda's kitties:

www.fotolog.com/kandykorn/?pid=8845965

Allston, Ma. 04/23/18