{"id":19926,"date":"2017-12-03T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19926"},"modified":"2017-12-03T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T13:46:31","slug":"railroad-museum-of-pennsylvania-a-dozen-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/railroad-museum-of-pennsylvania-a-dozen-new-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania-A Dozen New photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is one of my favorite American railway museums both because of its great collection of Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Company, Conrail and Amtrak equipment, and for its stunning interior presentation that makes railroad equipment compelling to look at.<\/p>\n

I exposed these photos on a visit in mid-November 2017 with Pat Yough having spent the afternoon photographing the nearby Strasburg Railroad at work.<\/p>\n

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FujiFilm X-T1 with Zeiss 12mm Touit lens. Here’s a trick for making more effective museum photos in a dimly lit environment such as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s main hall: over expose by about 1\/2 a stop (let more light in). This avoids blocking up the shadow areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the fascinating aspects of the museum\u2019s static collection are the numerous vintage freight cars that span a century of service. Too often the common freight car\u2014the backbone of American railroad freight transport\u2014is overshadowed in preservation by more glamorous equipment.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is one of my favorite American railway museums both because of its great collection of Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Company, Conrail and Amtrak equipment, and for its stunning interior presentation that makes railroad equipment compelling to look at. I exposed these photos on a visit in mid-November 2017 with Pat Yough … Continue reading Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania-A Dozen New photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19922,"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":[4454,4271,4452,4453,215,199,1231,190],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Railroad-Museum_of_PA_GG1_4935_DSCF1626-2.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19926"}],"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=19926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19927,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19926\/revisions\/19927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}