{"id":11197,"date":"2015-06-04T03:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T07:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2015-06-03T21:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T01:56:46","slug":"lucky-day-in-harrisburg-savanna-atlanta-heritage-locomotive-at-harris-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/lucky-day-in-harrisburg-savanna-atlanta-heritage-locomotive-at-harris-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Day in Harrisburg! Savanna & Atlanta heritage Locomotive at Harris Tower."},"content":{"rendered":"

June 3, 2015 was a lucky day. I\u2019d traveled to Harrisburg on Amtrak’s\u00a0Keystone to visit Kurt Bell at the Pennsylvania\u00a0State Archives to\u00a0research for\u00a0a book. I don’t make it Harrisburg very often, and while there are lots of interesting items in the archives,\u00a0all study and no photography makes Brian dull and edgy. (pardon the referring myself in the 3rd person but it was a necessary allusion.<\/p>\n

So afterwards, I wandered around the city, took a look at the Susquehanna River Bridges, then up to explore the view from the bridge over the old Pennsylvania Railroad west of the Amtrak station.<\/p>\n

As it happens this is good in both directions. And in the course of just a few minutes I had trains east and then west.<\/p>\n

I was surprised by the westward train. \u2018What\u2019s this?\u2019 I thought when the locomotives came around the corner by the station shed. \u2018That\u2019s not an ordinary Norfolk Southern locomotive.\u2019 Hardly.<\/p>\n

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A westward Norfolk Southern autorack train 15J passes the Harrisburg passenger station. Exposed with my Fuji X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Savanna<\/a>
Savanna & Atlantic heritage locomotive passes the restored Harris Tower. Exposed with my Fuji X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I was blessed in my fortuitous timing. XT-1 close up view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My good fortune! It was locomotive 1065 painted for Southern Railway affiliate Savanna & Atlanta. Hooray! Well, that makes up last week\u2019s trip to the Hoosac Tunnel<\/p>\n

(see:\u00a0Hoosac Tunnel\u2014Morning Luck<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t waste too much time looking at the Susquehanna, I might have missed this! After the train went by, I rang my friend Paul Goewey in Massachusetts to check the internet to find out what train I’d seen. (My scanner was in Philadelphia, good place for it, right?) Later he got back to me with the details: symbol freight 15J.<\/p>\n

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June 3, 2015 was a lucky day. I\u2019d traveled to Harrisburg on Amtrak’s\u00a0Keystone to visit Kurt Bell at the Pennsylvania\u00a0State Archives to\u00a0research for\u00a0a book. I don’t make it Harrisburg very often, and while there are lots of interesting items in the archives,\u00a0all study and no photography makes Brian dull and edgy. (pardon the referring myself … Continue reading Lucky Day in Harrisburg! Savanna & Atlanta heritage Locomotive at Harris Tower.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2752,2753,1955,59,2751],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Savanna_-Atlantic_Heritage_Unit_w_NS_wb_autorack_train_wide_view_DSCF8247.jpg?fit=820%2C547","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2UB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}