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Tracking the Light Reaches 1500!

July 4, 2016 brian solomon 12 Comments

This is the 1500^th Tracking the Light posting since the blog began in July 2012.

All 1,500 posts are in the archives and available for browsing.

Once I posted the pieces to a puzzle and I was disappointed when my theme proved so opaque that no one figured it out!

Today I try again.

I don’t think this one is as difficult as the last.

FYI: Tracking the Light’s official posting time zone is Eastern Standard Time (New York, Boston, etc).

To the first reader that sends me a comment attached today’s posting with the correct answer to my puzzle: I will send you a free book. As Wally says, ‘Free!’

I will accept a one word answer (if correct), but a little explanation as to why would be nice.

Please note: the first correct answer must be sent as a comment attached to this Tracking the Light post (not to the homepage or any place else); to clarify, any answer sent by Email, or left as Facebook comments, tweets, comments to Google Plus, Tumbler or sent by snail mail or phone cannot count for the free book.  No ties, no second place. Sorry, but those are the rules.

Tracking the Light has posted 1500 individual stories! 

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12 comments on “Tracking the Light Reaches 1500!”

1. John O'Connor on July 5, 2016 at 9:50 am said:

   Sunset
   Perhaps (see earlier comment).
2. wts on July 5, 2016 at 9:35 am said:

   Primary. The primary subjects between the 2 photos that draw the eye are the (old fashioned) primary colors blue, yellow, and red. Yellow is the primary bridge between the 2 photos.

   I noted the end of catenary on the left track in the lower photo, but couldn’t relate it to the top photo, which is not Harrisburg, PA, or any other location that’s the end of PRR catenary.
3. Graham on July 5, 2016 at 7:27 am said:

   This isn’t correct but “Consett” a big rail served iron works that has been slowly dying over recent years here in the UK. Why? CONrail sunSET(T!).
4. John O'Connor on July 5, 2016 at 4:09 am said:

   Twilight

   Just a guess since I think Conrail was turned over to private investors at the end of the decade, and the next photo is kind of evening anyway 😉
5. Sean Solomon on July 4, 2016 at 7:54 pm said:

   Something to do with Conrail and its last days. Perhaps the sunset something to do with it and the yellow signal and the yellow truck. I bet that signal is no longer around just like the Conrail Trains.
6. Stephen on July 4, 2016 at 6:45 pm said:

   The sun has never set on ‘Tracking the Light’!
7. tom rochford on July 4, 2016 at 6:28 pm said:

   So, where is the puzzle???
8. Brian Jennison on July 4, 2016 at 4:58 pm said:

   I don’t even get what’s the puzzle, much less what’s the answer. Wasn’t Conrail born on July 4th, 1976? Maybe that’s it.

   Anyway, wow… 1500 posts. It doesn’t seem possible. You are a busy boy, that’s for sure.

   Nice work, and thank you!
9. Dennis Janssen on July 4, 2016 at 4:12 pm said:

   The engine is an SW1500
10. Tom Warger on July 4, 2016 at 4:11 pm said:

    Diverging
11. Bill Strassner on July 4, 2016 at 3:34 pm said:

    SW-1500 in twilight…..

    A CR SW-1500 in the twilight year of Conrail, “approach”-ing the end.
12. Dan on July 4, 2016 at 3:09 pm said:

    MP1500… General Motors switcher model.. Ex PC, Is now NS 2229 in black..

    Built 10-73…