{"id":20219,"date":"2018-01-15T05:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20219"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:56:57","slug":"20219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/20219\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Very Day 65 Years Ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 15, 1953, Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric number 4876 leading the Federal Express<\/em> from Boston lost its airbrake and careened out of control\u00a0on approach to Washington Union Station.<\/p>\n

The train crashed most spectacularly and old 4876 sunk through the floor of the station concourse. It made national news and photos of the GG1 in the debris of the station was seen on most major papers across the country.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the end of 4876. The locomotive\u2019s remains were remanufactured by the Pennsylvania Railroad and 4876 was restored to traffic. It operated for another 30 years.<\/p>\n

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, my family and I made a project of photographing 4876. At that time it was operated by NJDOT the precursor to today\u2019s NJ Transit.<\/p>\n

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April 1979, Sunnyside Yard, Queens, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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June 1983, more than 30 years after its famous incident, 4876 catches the sun at South Amboy, New Jersey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last April (2017) in Basel, Switzerland, I saw a model of the famous GG1 in a shop window.<\/p>\n

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GG1 in Basel, Switzerland. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Less than a month later (May 2017), I photographed New England Central 608 at State Line crossing in Monson, Massachusetts; and this photo\u2019s camera\u2019s pre-assigned sequential file number was . . . (oh just take a wild guess\u2014first four digit number that comes to mind).<\/p>\n

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NECR_3809_w_608_State_Line_Monson_DSCF4876.jpg. Oh look, calendar light! Hmmm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On January 15, 1953, Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric number 4876 leading the Federal Express from Boston lost its airbrake and careened out of control\u00a0on approach to Washington Union Station. The train crashed most spectacularly and old 4876 sunk through the floor of the station concourse. It made national news and photos of the GG1 in … Continue reading On This Very Day 65 Years Ago!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20214,"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":[4526,4537,223,215,121],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NJT_GG1_4876_Jun_1983_at_S_Amboy_NJ\u00a9Brian_Solomon_664505.jpg?fit=1735%2C1152","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BVuC-20219","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20219"}],"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=20219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20221,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20219\/revisions\/20221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}