{"id":18970,"date":"2017-07-27T05:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18970"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:26:05","slug":"septa-trolleys-on-38th-street-acting-on-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/septa-trolleys-on-38th-street-acting-on-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA Trolleys on 38th Street\u2014Acting on Opportunity."},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago on my visit to Philadelphia, I was on my way to the University of Pennsylvania for a brief tour before heading to Amtrak\u2019s 30th<\/sup> Street Station to board the Vermonter<\/em> for Connecticut, on the way there in an \u2018Uber\u2019 (taxi) I notice the trolleys on the street.<\/p>\n

Apparently SEPTA had its Center City trolley subway closed (for maintenance?) and so the trolleys that normally went below ground were working rarely utilized street trackage on 38th<\/sup> street instead.<\/p>\n

How long this diversion as to be employed was beyond my knowledge at the time, but since I knew that I won\u2019t be back in Philadelphia for many months, I only had this brief window to photograph this unusual operation.<\/p>\n

I had just a few minutes to make images as I need to accomplish my tour and reach the station in little over an hour.<\/p>\n

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View from an Uber on 38th Street Philadelphia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leaning out of the window of the Uber taxi, I made this improvised view on 38th street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A SEPTA trolley pauses at a traffic light waiting to turn on to 38th street. I manually adjusted the Lumix to compensate for the white trolley to avoid overexposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View from the Locust bridge over 38th Street that connects portions of the University of Pennsylvania campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Light and shadow on 38th Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On my walk over to 30th Street, I followed 38th Street to make some views from the sidewalk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These photos were exposed using my Lumix LX7 digital camera.<\/p>\n

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Two weeks ago on my visit to Philadelphia, I was on my way to the University of Pennsylvania for a brief tour before heading to Amtrak\u2019s 30th Street Station to board the Vermonter for Connecticut, on the way there in an \u2018Uber\u2019 (taxi) I notice the trolleys on the street. Apparently SEPTA had its Center … Continue reading SEPTA Trolleys on 38th Street\u2014Acting on Opportunity.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18968,"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":[4284,4285,4283,183,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SEPTA_streetcars_38th_Street_Philadelphia_P1660155.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4VY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970"}],"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=18970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18971,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions\/18971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}