{"id":22615,"date":"2018-10-23T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22615"},"modified":"2018-10-21T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T20:35:17","slug":"on-this-day-31-years-ago-genesee-wyoming-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-31-years-ago-genesee-wyoming-45\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day 31 years ago: Genesee &#038; Wyoming 45."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of October 23, 1987, I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide using my Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens.<\/p>\n<p>Today Genesee &amp; Wyoming is a name associated with more than 110 short line and freight operators in North America, Europe and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, the original Genesee &amp; Wyoming Railroad was a New York State short line that had only recently begun to extend its arms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22616\" style=\"width: 6176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22616\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-31-years-ago-genesee-wyoming-45\/gw_mp15_45_sb_at_pl_jct_caledonia_ny_23oct1987_km_brian-solomon-494155\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?fit=6176%2C4128\" data-orig-size=\"6176,4128\" 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=\"G&#038;W_MP15_45_sb_at_P&#038;L_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian Solomon 494155\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?fit=709%2C474\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?fit=474%2C317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22616\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?resize=474%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?w=6176 6176w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?resize=709%2C474 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?resize=1022%2C683 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesee &amp; Wyoming MP15 number 45 works south from P&amp;L Junction in Caledonia, New York on the evening of October 23, 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of October 23, 1987, I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide using my Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens. Today Genesee &amp; Wyoming is a name associated with more than 110 short line and freight operators in North America, Europe and Australia. In 1987, the original Genesee &amp; Wyoming Railroad was a New &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-this-day-31-years-ago-genesee-wyoming-45\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On this day 31 years ago: Genesee &#038; Wyoming 45.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22616,"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":[4958,4404,4537,1223,7535,854,3612],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GW_MP15_45_sb_at_PL_Jct_Caledonia_NY_23Oct1987_KM_Brian-Solomon-494155.jpg?fit=6176%2C4128","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5SL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615"}],"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=22615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22617,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions\/22617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}