{"id":18909,"date":"2017-07-17T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18909"},"modified":"2017-07-18T06:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T10:01:14","slug":"septa-silverliner-ivs-on-the-northeast-corridor-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/septa-silverliner-ivs-on-the-northeast-corridor-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA Silverliner IVs \u00a0on the Northeast Corridor\u2014July 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

A half-century ago Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s common MP54 \u2018owl-eyed\u2019 electric multiple units plied its electrified lines largely unnoticed despite most serving for 40-50 years in daily traffic<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s equivalent are SEPTA\u2019s Silverliner IVs that were built between 1974 and 1976 for Philadelphia-area electric suburban operation on former Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Company lines.<\/p>\n

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Considering that these workhorses are now more than 40 years old, they are well worthy of attention from photographers. Many similar cars employed by NJ Transit have already been retired and scrapped.<\/p>\n

I photographed this two-car SEPTA set at Levittown, Pennsylvania on July 7, 2017 using my FujiFilm X-T1 mirror-less digital camera.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A half-century ago Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s common MP54 \u2018owl-eyed\u2019 electric multiple units plied its electrified lines largely unnoticed despite most serving for 40-50 years in daily traffic Today\u2019s equivalent are SEPTA\u2019s Silverliner IVs that were built between 1974 and 1976 for Philadelphia-area electric suburban operation on former Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Company lines. Considering that these … Continue reading SEPTA Silverliner IVs \u00a0on the Northeast Corridor\u2014July 2017.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18907,"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],"tags":[4271,4537,793,1231,49,1808],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SEPTA_9756_Levittown_PA_DSCF6532-2.jpg?fit=1532%2C1305","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4UZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909"}],"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=18909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18916,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions\/18916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}