{"id":13768,"date":"2016-01-15T05:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T10:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2016-01-15T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:31:50","slug":"on-this-day-january-15-1953-pennsylvania-railroads-federal-express-crashed-at-washington-union-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-january-15-1953-pennsylvania-railroads-federal-express-crashed-at-washington-union-station\/","title":{"rendered":"On this Day, January 15, 1953, Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s Federal Express Crashed at Washington Union Station."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead was GG1 electric number 4876.<\/p>\n<p>After the spectacular January 15, 1953 Washington Union Station wreck, Pennsylvania Railroad rebuilt GG1 4876, which required substantial reconstruction resulting in an nearly new machine.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I made a project of photographing old 4876, at which time it was working for New Jersey Department of Transportation on New York &amp; Long Branch suburban services.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13767\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/njt_gg1_4876_detail_rahway_jct_c1982_brian-solomon_581179\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13767\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-january-15-1953-pennsylvania-railroads-federal-express-crashed-at-washington-union-station\/njt_gg1_4876_detail_rahway_jct_c1982_brian-solomon_581179\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?fit=1654%2C2418\" data-orig-size=\"1654,2418\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian Solomon_581179\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;I exposed this detailed view with my Leica 3A at Rahway Junction in the locomotive\u2019s last year of service.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?fit=367%2C537\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?fit=474%2C693\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13767\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?resize=474%2C693\" alt=\"I exposed this detailed view with my Leica 3A at Rahway Junction in the locomotive\u2019s last year of service.\" width=\"474\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?resize=495%2C724 495w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?resize=103%2C150 103w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?resize=367%2C537 367w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?w=1654 1654w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_detail_Rahway_Jct_c1982_Brian-Solomon_581179.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I exposed this detailed view with my Leica 3A at Rahway Junction in the locomotive\u2019s last year of service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Post Every Day!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead was GG1 electric number 4876. After the spectacular January 15, 1953 Washington Union Station wreck, Pennsylvania Railroad rebuilt GG1 4876, which required substantial reconstruction resulting in an nearly new machine. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I made a project of photographing old 4876, at which time it was working for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-january-15-1953-pennsylvania-railroads-federal-express-crashed-at-washington-union-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On this Day, January 15, 1953, Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s Federal Express Crashed at Washington Union Station.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13766,"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":[3814,4537,3240,223,3241,7535,215,3239,121,1231,2072],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_at_Sunnside_Yard-Queens_NY_April_1979_Brian-Solomon_581180.jpg?fit=2418%2C1654","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3A4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768"}],"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=13768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13785,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions\/13785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}