{"id":20781,"date":"2018-04-01T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20781"},"modified":"2018-04-01T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T14:16:42","slug":"tracking-the-light-extra-happy-birthday-conrail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-extra-happy-birthday-conrail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light EXTRA: Happy Birthday Conrail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Consolidated Rail Corporation began operations on April 1, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1980s and 1990s, I made thousands of Kodachrome slides of Conrail operations. Conrail was divided between Norfolk Southern and CSX in Spring 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In August 1988, I exposed this view from Tifft Street in Buffalo of a westward Conrail intermodal train working the Water Level Route.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Doherty and I authored a book on Conrail in 2004.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20780\" style=\"width: 1740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20780\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-extra-happy-birthday-conrail\/conrail_intermodal_train_tifft_st_buffalo_aug1988_kmbrian_solomon_53601107\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?fit=1740%2C1149\" data-orig-size=\"1740,1149\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed on Kodachrome 25 with a Leica M2 and 90mm Leitz Elmarit lens.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?fit=709%2C468\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?fit=474%2C313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?resize=474%2C313\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?w=1740 1740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?resize=709%2C468 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?resize=1022%2C675 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed on Kodachrome 25 with a Leica M2 and 90mm Leitz Elmarit lens. I cross-lit the train in an effort to emphasize the Buffalo skyline and help distinguish the four track line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #204ed6;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consolidated Rail Corporation began operations on April 1, 1976. During the 1980s and 1990s, I made thousands of Kodachrome slides of Conrail operations. Conrail was divided between Norfolk Southern and CSX in Spring 1999. In August 1988, I exposed this view from Tifft Street in Buffalo of a westward Conrail intermodal train working the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-extra-happy-birthday-conrail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracking the Light EXTRA: Happy Birthday Conrail!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20780,"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":[4619,4620,2420,53,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Conrail_intermodal_train_Tifft_St_Buffalo_Aug1988_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601107.jpg?fit=1740%2C1149","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781"}],"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=20781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20783,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781\/revisions\/20783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}