{"id":17636,"date":"2017-01-09T05:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17636"},"modified":"2017-01-09T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:28:50","slug":"a-taste-of-mexico-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-taste-of-mexico-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taste of Mexico on New Years Eve."},"content":{"rendered":"

New Years Eve 2016, I was traveling with Pat Yough. We got news of a GE-built ES44AC Ferromex locomotive leading Norfolk Southern 39G (Camden, NJ to Allentown, PA) and so we went to investigate.<\/p>\n

I made these photographs at HATCH in Pennsauken, New Jersey using my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/p>\n

Not only were we rewarded with a Mexican\u00a0locomotive in the lead, but also a rare opportunity to catch a caboose on a road freight. Not bad for the last day of 2016!<\/p>\n

For me New Years Eve has another Mexican connection; on this day in 1979 I flew from Mexico City to New York\u2019s Kennedy Airport on an Eastern Airlines L1011.<\/p>\n

Things were more relaxed in those days, and I was afforded a nice forward view for part of my journey.<\/p>\n

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Ferromex 4679 leads Norfolk Southern symbol freight 39G at ‘Hatch’ in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Those are \u00a0the tracks for NJ Transit’s River Line light rail on the left. I adjusted the file in post processing to lower the contrast and improve the color.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It’s relatively rare to find a Mexican locomotive leading in New Jersey. First time I saw something like this anyway. Exposed using my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed using my FujiFilm X-T1 with 18-135mm zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The caboose was a nice touch. NS 39G took this\u00a0\u00a0only\u00a0 as far as Abrahms Yard (near Norristown, PA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed using my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In NORAC rules a red-over-yellow aspect means Medium Approach Medium, I don’t have a rule book for NJ Transit’s Light Rail. Any clues?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New Years Eve 2016, I was traveling with Pat Yough. We got news of a GE-built ES44AC Ferromex locomotive leading Norfolk Southern 39G (Camden, NJ to Allentown, PA) and so we went to investigate. I made these photographs at HATCH in Pennsauken, New Jersey using my FujiFilm X-T1. Not only were we rewarded with a … Continue reading A Taste of Mexico on New Years Eve.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17630,"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":[],"tags":[4005,4004,4006,4007,4537,2290,1826,59],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ferromex_4679_w_NS_39G_at_Hatch_in_Pennsauken_NJ_DSCF9728.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4As","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636"}],"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=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17638,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions\/17638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}