{"id":18977,"date":"2017-07-26T05:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18977"},"modified":"2017-07-26T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T11:26:16","slug":"follow-that-budd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/follow-that-budd\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow That BUDD!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not to be confused with: \u201cFollow THAT! Bud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, in the high-summer light, while traveling from Reading & Northern\u2019s Reading Outer Station on its former Reading Company Budd Cars (Budd Company Rail Diesel Cars otherwise known as RDCs), I wondered about photo locations along Reading & Northern\u2019s lines.<\/p>\n

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Back in the day (lets call it the early 1960s) my father, Richard Jay Solomon, photographed Reading Rambles along these same Reading Company routes (and also occasional put the company\u2019s regularly scheduled passenger trains on film).<\/p>\n

For years, I\u2019d looked at these slides without fully grasping where they were taken.<\/p>\n

One trip over the old Reading answered many questions. Around each bend, I recognized locations, thinking \u2018Ah Ha! So that\u2019s where Pop made THAT photo\u2019 and so on. (I\u2019m still waiting for Pop to finish labeling his slides; he\u2019s got about as far as 1960 thus far. HINT: Don\u2019t wait 57 years to label your photos).<\/p>\n

In the Lehigh Gorge, Pat Yough and I chatted with our friend Scott Snell\u2014an accomplished member of the railway photo fraternity. Scott offered us the opportunity to ride with him as he chased the Budd cars back toward Reading.<\/p>\n

Having traveled up by rail, we jumped at the opportunity to make photos of our train in late afternoon summer sun. So we traveled with Scott by road from Jim Thorpe to Reading, by way of Tamaqua, Port Clinton and Hamburg, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my results thanks to Scott and Pat\u2019s knowledge of the line.<\/p>\n

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Not on the old Reading Company, but in fact on the former Central Railroad of Jersey line at Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New Ringgold, Pennsylvania on the old Reading Company line between Port Clinton and Tamaqua. This was a definite, “Ah Ha” location. (And I don’t mean the Norwegian pop band.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pop bagged a Reading double-header crossing this field. That photo has appeared in books.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Not far from the former Reading Company station at Hamburg, Pennsylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Not to be confused with: \u201cFollow THAT! Bud.\u201d Earlier this month, in the high-summer light, while traveling from Reading & Northern\u2019s Reading Outer Station on its former Reading Company Budd Cars (Budd Company Rail Diesel Cars otherwise known as RDCs), I wondered about photo locations along Reading & Northern\u2019s lines. Back in the day (lets … Continue reading Follow That BUDD!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18975,"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":[792,4275,199,4273,190,2502],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Reading__Northern_RDCs_New_Ringgold_PA_DSCF7198.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4W5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977"}],"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=18977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18987,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions\/18987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}