{"id":21963,"date":"2018-08-25T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21963"},"modified":"2018-08-25T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T17:25:49","slug":"cabbage-pan-on-the-old-milwaukee-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cabbage-pan-on-the-old-milwaukee-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabbage Pan on the old Milwaukee Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the mid-1930s, Milwaukee Road introduced its high-speed streamlined Hiawatha\u00a0<\/em>on its Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities route where elegant purpose-built shrouded 4-4-2 and 4-6-4 Alco steam locomotives whisked trains along in excess of 110mph.<\/p>\n

Today, Amtrak\u2019s Hiawathas\u00a0<\/em>have Siemens Chargers on the Milwaukee end, and former F40PH Control-Cab\/baggage cars, known as \u2018Cabbages\u2019 on the Chicago-end.<\/p>\n

While Amtrak provides an excellent corridor service, today top speed is just 79mph.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help but think that as a nation we\u2019ve lost the plot on this one.<\/p>\n

We went from elegant, fast steam streamliners to this?<\/p>\n

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Panning my Fujifilm XT1 plus 27mm lens in parallel with Amtrak\u2019s fast moving Hiawatha has allowed for the effect of speed and motion. ISO 200, 1\/125thof a second. Note: that my shutter speed wasn\u2019t especially slow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In the mid-1930s, Milwaukee Road introduced its high-speed streamlined Hiawatha\u00a0on its Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities route where elegant purpose-built shrouded 4-4-2 and 4-6-4 Alco steam locomotives whisked trains along in excess of 110mph. Today, Amtrak\u2019s Hiawathas\u00a0have Siemens Chargers on the Milwaukee end, and former F40PH Control-Cab\/baggage cars, known as \u2018Cabbages\u2019 on the Chicago-end. While Amtrak provides an … Continue reading Cabbage Pan on the old Milwaukee Road<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21964,"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":[4873,3818,3908,4537,31,981],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Amtrak_cabbage_90413_pan_train_330_WEPCO_East_at_Pleasant_Prairie_Wis_DSCF1820.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5If","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963"}],"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=21963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22023,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions\/22023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}