On Saturday, I stuffed my camera and a parking stand into a backpack and headed up the rail trails on my old Colson-built Firestone to find some spots to take some decent photos of it. In particular, I had in mind a steel girder bridge that the Lehigh Valley Railroad used to cross the Auburn Railroad (New York Central later on), as well as a tunnel where the interstate also crossed the Auburn Road. It was in the mid '60s, the sun was more or less out, and I had a few hours free. Considering that it was supposed to rain, and it IS October, here in western NY you take what you can get.
I started up the path out of the town park, but hadn't gone far when I decided that the bend that joins the Lehigh Valley Trail to the actual road bed was particularly photogenic. The path was in the woods, the trees that were filtering the sunlight down through where changing colors, there were lots of leaves on the ground already, and there was no one around. In fact, I think the title "The Road Less Traveled" would be an apt name for this set of photos as a whole. Anyway, here we go:
I started up the path out of the town park, but hadn't gone far when I decided that the bend that joins the Lehigh Valley Trail to the actual road bed was particularly photogenic. The path was in the woods, the trees that were filtering the sunlight down through where changing colors, there were lots of leaves on the ground already, and there was no one around. In fact, I think the title "The Road Less Traveled" would be an apt name for this set of photos as a whole. Anyway, here we go:
