{"id":19906,"date":"2017-12-01T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19906"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:59:22","slug":"amtrak-603-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-603-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak 603 Then and Now."},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years I made countless photos of Amtrak\u2019s block-like E60 electrics working underwire.<\/p>\n

So for me it\u2019s a bit strange to see one of these 1970s-era machines on static display outside of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania alongside a PRR DD1 electric and some other classics, including a 1980s-era AEM-7 (topic of a future Tracking the Light Post).<\/p>\n

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Exposed using a Lumix LX7 in November 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since today Amtrak 603 represents the E60 fleet, I scanned through my archives to locate photo of 603 at work on the Northeast Corridor. It\u2019s pictured with a long distance train on August 1, 1986 at Linden, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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I made this view on Kodachrome using a Leica 3A fitted with a 200mm Leitz Tellyt using Visoflex reflex attachment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I couldn\u2019t have anticipated then that engine 603 would someday be a museum piece!<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light is Daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years I made countless photos of Amtrak\u2019s block-like E60 electrics working underwire. So for me it\u2019s a bit strange to see one of these 1970s-era machines on static display outside of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania alongside a PRR DD1 electric and some other classics, including a 1980s-era AEM-7 (topic of a future … Continue reading Amtrak 603 Then and Now.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19904,"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":[10,48],"tags":[31,2293,1564],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amtrak_603_at_Linden_NJ_Aug1_1986_Brian-Solomon-581132.jpg?fit=1733%2C1154","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5b4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906"}],"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=19906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19907,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906\/revisions\/19907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}