{"id":19778,"date":"2017-11-14T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19778"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:08:10","slug":"diesels-under-wire-on-the-main-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/diesels-under-wire-on-the-main-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesels Under Wire on the Main Line."},"content":{"rendered":"

Not just any old \u2018mainline,\u2019 but the famous Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Main Line\u2014 so called because it was built as the \u2018Main Line of Public Works\u2019 in the mid-Nineteenth Century.<\/p>\n

I made this view of Amtrak\u2019s Pennsylvanian<\/em> taking the curve at Berwyn, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Where most of the trains on this line draw power from the high-voltage AC catenary, Amtrak\u2019s Pennsylvanian<\/em> changes from an electric to a diesel locomotive at 30th<\/sup> Street to avoid the need to change at Harrisburg.<\/p>\n

This is Amtrak\u2019s only service on the former PRR west of Harrisburg. The lone long distance train on what was once a premier passenger route, and unusual on the electrified portion of the line.<\/p>\n

I exposed this sequence at Berwyn using my FujiFilm XT1 and 18-135mm zoom lens.<\/p>\n

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To make the most of the curve and autumn color, I positioned myself on the outside of the curve at Berwyn. The chug of Amtrak\u2019s P42 diesel alerted me to the approach of this westward train.<\/p>\n

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Not just any old \u2018mainline,\u2019 but the famous Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Main Line\u2014 so called because it was built as the \u2018Main Line of Public Works\u2019 in the mid-Nineteenth Century. I made this view of Amtrak\u2019s Pennsylvanian taking the curve at Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Where most of the trains on this line draw power from the … Continue reading Diesels Under Wire on the Main Line.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19774,"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":[4425,4423,4424,31,122,199,1231],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amtrak-43_Pennsylvanian_at_Berwyn_Mod1-DSCF0663.jpg?fit=1613%2C1239","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-590","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778"}],"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=19778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19779,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions\/19779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}