{"id":1472,"date":"2013-06-29T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2013-02-22T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:18:21","slug":"septa-one-year-ago-june-29-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/septa-one-year-ago-june-29-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA One Year Ago: June 29, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

This day last year (June 29, 2012), Pat Yough, my brother Sean and I, spent the evening photographing the final runs of SEPTA<\/a>\u2019s 50 year old Silverliner IIs and IIIs. These were working the short run on the former Pennsylvania Railroad line to Cynwyd.<\/p>\n

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A pair of SEPTA’s vintage Silverliners navigate the Cynwyd Line near Bala Station, Philadelphia on June 29, 2012. Exposed with a Canon 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 50 years earlier, my father Richard Jay Solomon had photographed, similar and then new PRR<\/a> Silverliners on the same line. Back then tracks and electrification continued across the Schuylkill River<\/a> to Manayunk<\/a> and beyond to Norristown. Today, SEPTA serves these locations by the former Reading Company line that ran largely parallel to the old PRR line.<\/p>\n

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