{"id":11572,"date":"2015-07-03T04:54:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2015-07-03T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:01:42","slug":"pennsylvania-station-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pennsylvania-station-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light looks at Pennsylvania Station, New York\u2014five photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 25, 2015, I made these photographs at New York\u2019s Penn Station. This is Amtrak\u2019s busiest station, and a terminal for Long Island Railroad and NJ Transit suburban trains.<\/p>\n

Once it was one of the world\u2019s most elegant railway terminals, built in a style inspired by the Roman baths of Caracalla; but today Penn Station is mostly functional, with little in the way of elegance to inspire the traveler.<\/p>\n

However, good and interesting photographs should not rely on great architecture as a crutch to draw the eye of the viewer, right?<\/p>\n

\"Welcome<\/a>
Welcome to New York!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Just<\/a>
Tracks, wires, iron girders and fluorescent light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A large black & white photo may remind passengers of the age of elegance. Yes, Virginia, we are standing in the same place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"On<\/a>
On the plus side, all Amtrak trains were\u00a0running to schedule. Really!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penn<\/a>
Penn Station allows direct connections between various railway services. Onward to the Long Island Railroad!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photos exposed with a Panasonic Lumix LX7 digital camera.<\/p>\n

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On June 25, 2015, I made these photographs at New York\u2019s Penn Station. This is Amtrak\u2019s busiest station, and a terminal for Long Island Railroad and NJ Transit suburban trains. Once it was one of the world\u2019s most elegant railway terminals, built in a style inspired by the Roman baths of Caracalla; but today Penn … Continue reading Tracking the Light looks at Pennsylvania Station, New York\u2014five photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11565,"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":[31,219,2261,928],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Penn_Station_new_and_old_P1250580.jpg?fit=800%2C600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-30E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572"}],"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=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11645,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}