Overbrook
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Two Years Ago: Portrait of SEPTA in the Snow at Overbrook, Pennsylvania.
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Please note, if you are viewing this post on Google Plus, Tumbler, Facebook or other sites, you’ll need to view Tracking the Light at: http://briansolomon.com/trackingthelight/ for the correct (unmodified, compressed or cropped) perspective on this image. It was exactly two years ago; on this…
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Rainy Night on the Main Line.
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Tracking the Light; Five photos on the old Pennsylvania Railroad. A Post-Prologue to a Night Photo Challenge . . . On December 1, 2014, I’d met my latest deadline, and so I finally had a few minutes to make photos…
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Tracking the Light Daily Post: SEPTA at Overbrook, Pennsylvania—Part 2
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Another day another Angle. On evening July 2, 2014, my brother Sean and I returned to Overbrook. I wanted to get there a bit earlier to focus on SEPTA’s electric locomotive-hauled rush hour services, including the named ‘Great Valley Flyer.’…
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Tracking the Light Daily Post: On The Main Line at Overbrook, Pennsylvania—Part 1
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Visual Quandaries in a Fascinating Place—July 1, 2014 Overbrook retains much of its Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line heritage. Not only is it a surviving portion of four track line, but it retains an active tower, traditional PRR position light signaling,…
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Rolling on the Railroad Special Post: Frosty Morning in Philadelphia.
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As Transmitted from Amtrak number 56, The Vermonter. This morning I started at Overbrook, Pennsylvania, where frosty temperatures and a clear sky made for some stunning lighting effects. The cold wasn’t aiding timely railroad operations. I caught a SEPTA local…
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SPECIAL POST: SEPTA in the Snow
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Afternoon and evening, January 21, 2014. This morning dawned with a blood-red sunrise. Something about a red sky in the morning? What I’d call ‘winter’ has been given all sorts of new fancy names. Probably the most absurd is the…