{"id":1715,"date":"2013-03-16T07:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T11:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2013-03-16T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T23:38:24","slug":"donner-pass-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/donner-pass-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Donner Pass Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak\u2019s <em>California Zephyr<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1714\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2013\/03\/16\/donner-pass-part-2\/amtrak-no-5-at-boca-calif-brian-solomon-226417\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1714\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/donner-pass-part-2\/amtrak-no-5-at-boca-calif-brian-solomon-226417\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?fit=700%2C459\" data-orig-size=\"700,459\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Amtrak No. 5 at Boca Calif Brian Solomon 226417\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?fit=512%2C335\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?fit=474%2C311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1714\" alt=\"Amtrak number 5 in the Truckee River Canyon near Boca Dam.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?resize=474%2C311\" width=\"474\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?w=700 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?resize=205%2C134 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?resize=512%2C335 512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Amtrak-No.-5-at-Boca-Calif-Brian-Solomon-226417.jpg?resize=457%2C300 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amtrak number 5 in the Truckee River Canyon near Boca Dam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amtrak\u2019s scheduled daylight operation of its <i>California Zephyr <\/i>over <a title=\"Donner\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-ri\" target=\"_blank\">Donner<\/a>, makes this popular train by far the most photographed train on the pass. In November 2003, Amtrak number 5, passes the signal bridge near Boca Dam on its westward ascent of Donner. 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In November 2003, Amtrak number 5, passes the signal bridge near Boca Dam on its westward ascent of Donner. I featured this photo in my book The World\u2019s Most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/donner-pass-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donner Pass Part 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4537,31,80,516,505,504,7535,517],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-rF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"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=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}