{"id":21922,"date":"2018-08-18T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21922"},"modified":"2018-08-16T04:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T08:40:58","slug":"emds-on-the-roll-conrail-era-sd60m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/emds-on-the-roll-conrail-era-sd60m\/","title":{"rendered":"EMDs on the Roll! Conrail-Era SD60M."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh, I remember when 6798 was NEW and blue. This is among Conrail-era SD60Ms still at work on Norfolk Southern.<\/p>\n

To make for a more dramatic locomotive action photo, I\u2019ve taken a low angle medium-telephoto view.<\/p>\n

Notice how the angle features the wheels on rails, allowing you to see below the locomotive.<\/p>\n

Engine exhaust blurs the wires beyond, demonstrating the engines are working.<\/p>\n

By focusing on the locomotives; I\u2019ve cropped most of the following freight, more than a mile of it in tow.<\/p>\n

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Exposed at LaPorte, Indiana on Norfolk Southern\u2019s former New York Central Water Level Route mainline. FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm telephoto. ISO 200, f5, 1\/500thsecond; JPG image processed from camera RAW file using Lightroom; contrast and exposure adjusted globally and locally to improve visual impact.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Gosh, I remember when 6798 was NEW and blue. This is among Conrail-era SD60Ms still at work on Norfolk Southern. To make for a more dramatic locomotive action photo, I\u2019ve taken a low angle medium-telephoto view. Notice how the angle features the wheels on rails, allowing you to see below the locomotive. Engine exhaust blurs … Continue reading EMDs on the Roll! Conrail-Era SD60M.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21923,"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":[4865,4843,4866,543,7535,59],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NS_6798_Westbound_west_of_LaPorte_IND_DSCF0972.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5HA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922"}],"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=21922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21924,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions\/21924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}