{"id":12216,"date":"2015-08-21T01:28:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2015-08-19T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:42:24","slug":"classic-chrome-nj-dot-e8s-at-south-amboy-new-jersey-december-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-chrome-nj-dot-e8s-at-south-amboy-new-jersey-december-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Chrome: NJ DOT E8s at South Amboy, New Jersey, December 1981."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s one deep from the archive: I was traveling with my father\u00a0and\u00a0brother and we’d come to South Amboy to watch the engine change where E8s were replaced by venerable GG1 electrics on New York & Long Branch passenger trains (North Jersey Coast Line) running from Bay Head Junction to Pennsylvania Station, New York.<\/p>\n

We got lost on the way down and ended up in a post-apocalyptic waterfront at Perth Amboy.<\/p>\n

Finally, we were trackside at the South Amboy Station.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a slightly improved variation: It should have a bit more ‘snap’ (contrast in shadows).<\/p>\n

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Here’s one deep from the archive: I was traveling with my father\u00a0and\u00a0brother and we’d come to South Amboy to watch the engine change where E8s were replaced by venerable GG1 electrics on New York & Long Branch passenger trains (North Jersey Coast Line) running from Bay Head Junction to Pennsylvania Station, New York. We got … Continue reading Classic Chrome: NJ DOT E8s at South Amboy, New Jersey, December 1981.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12214,"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":[2900,9,1826,2901,2902,2899],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NJDOT_E8A_at_South_Amboy_NJ_Dec1981\u00a9Brian_Solomon_899761.jpg?fit=1000%2C659","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3b2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216"}],"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=12216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12221,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions\/12221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}