{"id":11664,"date":"2015-07-11T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2015-07-11T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T20:42:47","slug":"light-rail-in-a-ghost-shadow-of-terminal-trackage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/light-rail-in-a-ghost-shadow-of-terminal-trackage\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Rail in a Ghost Shadow of Terminal Trackage."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sometimes I wonder if I&#8217;m living in the wrong century.<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11662\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/07\/11\/light-rail-in-a-ghost-shadow-of-terminal-trackage\/nj_transit_light_rail_harborside_p1250814\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11662\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/light-rail-in-a-ghost-shadow-of-terminal-trackage\/nj_transit_light_rail_harborside_p1250814\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?fit=800%2C534\" data-orig-size=\"800,534\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1435304938&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Lumix LX7 photo at Harboside in Jersey, New Jersey. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11662\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Lumix LX7 photo at Harboside in Jersey, New Jersey. \" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NJ_Transit_light_rail_Harborside_P1250814.jpg?resize=449%2C300 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lumix LX7 photo at Harboside in Jersey, New Jersey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On June 26, 2015, I exposed this digital image at Harborside of an NJ Transit light rail train destined for Hoboken.<\/p>\n<p>Although there\u2019s virtually no evidence today, decades ago this was the site of intensive Pennsylvania Railroad waterfront terminal trackage.<\/p>\n<p>More than a century ago PRR\u2019s vast arched shed was located at Exchange Place (a few blocks to the south) while the entire area was blanketed with tracks.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/furnesque.tumblr.com\/post\/34850191832\/jersey-city-ferry-terminal-pennsylvania-railroad\">http:\/\/furnesque.tumblr.com\/post\/34850191832\/jersey-city-ferry-terminal-pennsylvania-railroad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My father photographed PRR MP54 electrics at Exchange Place in the early 1960s, and I recall watching a Conrail NW2 work freight trackage here in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the area is covered in towering office blocks.<\/p>\n<p>It is similar to modern waterfront development at Dublin\u2019s North Wall but on a larger scale. In Dublin, as in Jersey City, light rail crosses the site of heavy rail trackage against the back-drop of geometric office-block architecture.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0posts\u00a0new\u00a0material\u00a0every\u00a0morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please share\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">Tracking the Light<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder if I&#8217;m living in the wrong century. On June 26, 2015, I exposed this digital image at Harborside of an NJ Transit light rail train destined for Hoboken. Although there\u2019s virtually no evidence today, decades ago this was the site of intensive Pennsylvania Railroad waterfront terminal trackage. 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