{"id":11409,"date":"2015-06-19T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:58:32","slug":"amtrak-67-with-the-richmond-skyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-67-with-the-richmond-skyline\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak 67 with the Richmond Skyline."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exposed with a Fujifilm X-T1 digital camera with 18-135mm lens at 135mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This train originated in Boston the night before. I recall in the 1980s, when this run used to be named the Night Owl. <\/em> Back in those times it ran Boston-Washington and carried a sleeping car.<\/p>\n

At some point it was re-named the Twilight Shoreliner <\/em>and carried a Viewliner. These days it\u2019s the nameless train 67, which runs from Boston to Newport News, Virginia., sans Viewliner.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pity there\u2019s no Amtrak sleeping car service overnight on the Corridor anymore.<\/p>\n

Doug Riddell provided this location for Pat Yough and me\u00a0during our Virginia-tour in early June. Eleven years earlier, Doug and I photographed a CSX coal train from nearly the same spot.<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s post (see:\u00a0A Thoroughbred versus a Heron<\/a>) featured a series of photos of a Norfolk Southern freight on the lift bridge in the foreground that were made just a few minutes before I exposed this image.<\/p>\n

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This train originated in Boston the night before. I recall in the 1980s, when this run used to be named the Night Owl. Back in those times it ran Boston-Washington and carried a sleeping car. At some point it was re-named the Twilight Shoreliner and carried a Viewliner. These days it\u2019s the nameless train 67, … Continue reading Amtrak 67 with the Richmond Skyline.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11406,"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":[31,2782,2197,2692],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Amtrak_train_67_w_Richmond_skyline_DSCF0056.jpg?fit=720%2C480","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2Y1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409"}],"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=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}