{"id":17314,"date":"2016-11-20T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17314"},"modified":"2016-11-20T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T13:18:58","slug":"new-york-penn-station-not-the-prettiest-place-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-york-penn-station-not-the-prettiest-place-but\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Penn Station\u2014Not the prettiest place, But . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Pennsylvania Station is not only Amtrak\u2019s busiest station, but it handles nearly twice the number of passengers as the next busiest. In addition to Amtrak\u2019s long distance trains are floods of Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit suburban runs.<\/p>\n

Busy, yes; attractive no.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been more than a half century since\u00a0the\u00a0Pennsylvania Railroad demolished its\u00a0original Penn Station terminal buildings.<\/p>\n

Back when I worked at Pentrex Publishing in the 1990s, every so often we would need an illustration of Penn Station for Passenger Train Journal. While photos of New York\u2019s elegant Grand Central Terminal were a dime a dozen, decent photos of Penn Station were few and far between.<\/p>\n

Now, when I visit Penn Station, I often try to make representative views.<\/p>\n

So, can you make interesting photos in ugly places?<\/p>\n

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New York’s Pennsylvania Station at 7th Avenue. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Amtrak ACS64 615 at New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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NJ Transit display at New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New York Pennsylvania Station is not only Amtrak\u2019s busiest station, but it handles nearly twice the number of passengers as the next busiest. In addition to Amtrak\u2019s long distance trains are floods of Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit suburban runs. Busy, yes; attractive no. It\u2019s been more than a half century since\u00a0the\u00a0Pennsylvania Railroad … Continue reading New York Penn Station\u2014Not the prettiest place, But . . .<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17311,"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":true,"_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":[10,48],"tags":[31,72,2800,2261,2259],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Penn_Station_P1550404.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314"}],"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=17314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17316,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions\/17316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}