{"id":12905,"date":"2015-10-19T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:32:33","slug":"reading-northern-425-on-the-old-central-railroad-of-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northern-425-on-the-old-central-railroad-of-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#038; Northern 425 on the old Central Railroad of New Jersey."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call it: Blue Pacific\u2014Part 2.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often you get a day where everything seems to come together.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 17, 2015 was one of those days.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Reading &amp; Northern and their crews for running an impressive train; thanks to Pat Yough for getting us where we all needed to be to photograph the action; thanks to FujiFilm for producing a great little camera; and thanks to Autumn 2015 for great weather and fine foliage.<\/p>\n<p>All I did was release the shutter.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12904\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?attachment_id=12904\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12904\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northern-425-on-the-old-central-railroad-of-new-jersey\/rn_425_haucks_2_horiz_dscf4306\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445101765&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;26.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"R&#038;N_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Reading &#038; Northern 4-6-2 425 makes an impressive scene near Haucks, Pennsylvania on October 17, 2015.  This was part of the old Central Railroad of New Jersey route on the line toward Jim Thorpe, PA.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12904\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Reading &amp; Northern 4-6-2 425 makes an impressive scene near Haucks, Pennsylvania on October 17, 2015.  This was part of the old Central Railroad of New Jersey route on the line toward Jim Thorpe, PA.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rods down: Reading &amp; Northern 4-6-2 425 makes an impressive scene near Haucks, Pennsylvania on October 17, 2015. This was part of the old Central Railroad of New Jersey route on the line toward Jim Thorpe, PA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Historically, a key to successful steam locomotive photos was leaving ample space above the locomotive for the exhaust plume. Imagine this same composition with a diesel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it: Blue Pacific\u2014Part 2. Every so often you get a day where everything seems to come together. Saturday, October 17, 2015 was one of those days. Thanks to the Reading &amp; Northern and their crews for running an impressive train; thanks to Pat Yough for getting us where we all needed to be to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northern-425-on-the-old-central-railroad-of-new-jersey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading &#038; Northern 425 on the old Central Railroad of New Jersey.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12904,"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":[2489,3017,3016,2488,60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_425_Haucks_2_Horiz_DSCF4306.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3m9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905"}],"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=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12906,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/12906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}