{"id":12309,"date":"2015-09-01T04:26:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12309"},"modified":"2015-09-01T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:04:31","slug":"charlotte-north-carolina-june-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/charlotte-north-carolina-june-1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte, North Carolina June 1, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1, 2014, Pat Yough and I traveled on the Carolinian from Charlotte to the Philadelphia area. We were returning from a successful visit to the North Carolina Transportation Museum&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Streamliners at Spencer\u00a0<\/em>event. The train departed Charlotte on time. I enjoyed the service, but I can&#8217;t say I endorse North Carolina&#8217;s gratuitous air-line style boarding procedures.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m putting the finishing touches on a book that will feature photography from that adventure (and many others). Tomorrow I fly to K\u00f6ln, Germany with some Irish friends to begin ten days exploration of the Rhein and Mosel Valleys. During that time Tracking the Light will continue to post daily, but will be on &#8216;auto-pilot&#8217; for a while. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12251\" style=\"width: 3776px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/09\/01\/charlotte-north-carolina-june-1-2014\/carolinian_glint_p1040380-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12251\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/charlotte-north-carolina-june-1-2014\/carolinian_glint_p1040380-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520\" data-orig-size=\"3776,2520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1401604543&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;17.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Carolinian_glint_P1040380\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Amtrak&#8217;s Carolinian catches the glint of the morning sun at Charlotte, North Carolina. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12251\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Amtrak's Carolinian catches the glint of the morning sun at Charlotte, North Carolina. \" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?w=3776 3776w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amtrak&#8217;s Carolinian catches the glint of the morning sun at Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tracking the Light posts new material routinely<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1, 2014, Pat Yough and I traveled on the Carolinian from Charlotte to the Philadelphia area. We were returning from a successful visit to the North Carolina Transportation Museum&#8217;s\u00a0Streamliners at Spencer\u00a0event. The train departed Charlotte on time. I enjoyed the service, but I can&#8217;t say I endorse North Carolina&#8217;s gratuitous air-line style boarding &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/charlotte-north-carolina-june-1-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charlotte, North Carolina June 1, 2014.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12251,"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":[31,2922,2175,1590,2923],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Carolinian_glint_P1040380.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309"}],"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=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}