Submitter:	Richard Keefer
Title:	Waste Rock
Gear:	OM-4 + 35-70 Zoom
Diaphragm:	Not Recorded
Shutter:	f8
Film:	Kodak Gold 400
Technical:	None
Subject Information:	During the early days of Granite Quarrying in Barre, Vermont the only way to effectively move blocks of granite was the railroad. This branch of the former Barre & Chelsea railroad runs through the center of town and, since railroads cannot negotiate steep grades, often results in cuts and fills to keep the track relatively level. This fill is to connect several granite finishing shops with the main road. The builders used what was common to them, scraps of waste granite, to create a simple but elegant solution to the need for a cut in the railbed to allow access. This cut is no more than 14 or 15 feet (3 - 3.5 meters) and traffic comes moves very slowly since there is a 90 degree turn at this end of the cut.
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Comment left by: John A. Lind (no e-mail specified)

Documents an historically interesting aspect of older rail structures and what was felt to be "wide enough" for traffic at the time it was built. We have a few very narrow road underpasses like this around here too, although not made of granite as this one is.

Comment left by: Chris Barker (imagopus@threeshoes.co.uk)

Nice idea, but it was a pity that the graffiti got in the way.

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