{"id":11559,"date":"2015-06-27T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2015-06-27T18:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:42:34","slug":"tracking-the-light-special-update-amtrak-acela-2253-at-new-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-special-update-amtrak-acela-2253-at-new-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Special Update\u2014Amtrak Acela 2253 at New Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporting live from Amtrak train 54, The Vermonter,\u00a0<\/em>on June 27, 2015. During our\u00a0engine change at New Haven\u2014electric locomotive 914 was replaced with Genesis diesel 102\u2014I made photos of Amtrak’s Boston-Washington\u00a0Acela Express,\u00a0<\/em>train 2253 arriving at New Haven.<\/p>\n

No engine change needed for the Acela\u00a0<\/em>express! The total elapsed time on the platform was just two minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Amtrak<\/a>
Amtrak Acela Express, train 2235, with power car 2006 at New Haven. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Broadside<\/a>
Broadside of the Acela Express at New Haven.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Amtrak<\/a>
Amtrak Acela Express, train 2253, at New Haven. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Old<\/a>
Old Amtrak AEM-7 914 heads for New Haven motor storage. A few weeks ago sister locomotive, Amtrak 915 was sent to Strasburg, Pennsylvania for preservation. How much longer will the old AEM-7s work? Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Vermonter<\/a>
Vermonter passengers watch the New Haven engine change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imagine the time savings for the\u00a0Vermonter<\/em> if it ran with a dual-mode diesel-electric\u2014electric, such as the Bombardier locomotives used by NJ Transit!<\/p>\n

Photos exposed with my Lumix LX7.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light post new material every single day!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reporting live from Amtrak train 54, The Vermonter,\u00a0on June 27, 2015. During our\u00a0engine change at New Haven\u2014electric locomotive 914 was replaced with Genesis diesel 102\u2014I made photos of Amtrak’s Boston-Washington\u00a0Acela Express,\u00a0train 2253 arriving at New Haven. No engine change needed for the Acela\u00a0express! The total elapsed time on the platform was just two minutes. Imagine … Continue reading Tracking the Light Special Update\u2014Amtrak Acela 2253 at New Haven<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11557,"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":[2801,129,31,1016],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Amtrak_Acela_2253_arrives_New_Haven_P1260056.jpg?fit=800%2C534","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-30r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559"}],"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=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11563,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions\/11563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}