{"id":17679,"date":"2017-01-15T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17679"},"modified":"2017-01-15T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T13:02:58","slug":"on-this-day-locomotive-4876-and-the-anniversary-of-the-washington-terminal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-locomotive-4876-and-the-anniversary-of-the-washington-terminal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"On this Day; Locomotive 4876 and the Anniversary of the Washington Terminal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 15th\u00a0is\u00a0the anniversary of the 1953\u00a0Washington Union Terminal crash<\/a>, when\u00a0Pennsylvania Railroad<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Federal Express<\/i>\u00a0led by GG1 4876 lost its airbrakes and \u00a0careened into the lobby of the station.<\/p>\n

This spectacular train wreck, on the eve of Eisenhower\u2019s inauguration, made headlines in every major newspaper across the country.<\/p>\n

Thirty four years ago, GG1 4876\u2014then operated by\u00a0NJ Transit <\/a>remained in\u00a0daily service\u00a0and\u00a0routinely worked New York & Long Branch trains between Penn Station and South Amboy, New Jersey .<\/p>\n

My father and I intercepted this infamous electric on various occasions in its final years of service.<\/p>\n

Here are few 4876 views from my lost negative file; They were exposed in June 1983 with my battle-worn\u00a0Leica IIIA<\/a>\u00a0from my High School days. I processed the film in the kitchen sink using \u00a0Kodak Microdol-X.<\/p>\n

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GG1 electric 4876 in June 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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GG1 electric 4876 in June 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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January 15th\u00a0is\u00a0the anniversary of the 1953\u00a0Washington Union Terminal crash, when\u00a0Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s\u00a0Federal Express\u00a0led by GG1 4876 lost its airbrakes and \u00a0careened into the lobby of the station. This spectacular train wreck, on the eve of Eisenhower\u2019s inauguration, made headlines in every major newspaper across the country. Thirty four years ago, GG1 4876\u2014then operated by\u00a0NJ Transit remained … Continue reading On this Day; Locomotive 4876 and the Anniversary of the Washington Terminal Crash<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17678,"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":[3814,223,220,217,121,3515],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578659.jpg?fit=1847%2C1083","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679"}],"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=17679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17681,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions\/17681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}