{"id":22665,"date":"2018-10-31T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22665"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:52:48","slug":"trains-podcast-conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trains-podcast-conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains Podcast: Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-312824194\/conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8\">Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Brian Solomon sits down with Trains&#8217; passenger columnist Bob Johnston and retired Amtrak engineer Craig Willett to talk about the national passenger carrier. This is the second in a multi-part conversation that began in Episode 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take a listen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/trn.trains.com\/photos-videos\/2018\/09\/conversations-with-brian-solomon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trains Magazine website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trn.trains.com\/photos-videos\/2018\/09\/conversations-with-brian-solomon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/trn.trains.com\/photos-videos\/2018\/09\/conversations-with-brian-solomon.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22666\" style=\"width: 3464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22666\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trains-podcast-conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8\/chris_brian_bob_j_and_craig_willet-dscf1926\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309\" data-orig-size=\"3464,2309\" 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=\"Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?w=3464 3464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Chris_Brian_Bob_J_and_Craig_Willet-DSCF1926.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Guss, Trains&#8217; Brian Schmidt, Bob Johnston and Craig Willett in the Kalmbach recording studio in August 2018. Exposed with a FujiFilm XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22667\" style=\"width: 3564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22667\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trains-podcast-conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8\/amtrak-cardinal-on-the-co-mod-1-brian-solomon-898153\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?fit=3564%2C2244\" data-orig-size=\"3564,2244\" 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=\"Amtrak Cardinal on the C&#038;O Mod-1 Brian Solomon 898153\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?fit=709%2C446\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?fit=474%2C298\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22667\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?resize=474%2C298\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?w=3564 3564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?resize=205%2C129 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?resize=709%2C446 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?resize=1022%2C643 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Cardinal-on-the-CO-Mod-1-Brian-Solomon-898153.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amtrak&#8217;s Cardinal on the old Chesapeake &amp; Ohio in Virginia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22668\" style=\"width: 972px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22668\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trains-podcast-conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8\/amtrak-capitols-at-pinole-ca-may-2008-brian-solomon-photo-205038\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?fit=972%2C672\" data-orig-size=\"972,672\" 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=\"Amtrak Capitols at Pinole CA May 2008 Brian Solomon photo 205038\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?fit=709%2C490\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?fit=474%2C328\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22668\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?resize=474%2C328\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?w=972 972w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?resize=205%2C142 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038.jpg?resize=709%2C490 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amtrak Capitols passenger train on the Union Pacific at Pinole, California in May 2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light posts daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 8 Brian Solomon sits down with Trains&#8217; passenger columnist Bob Johnston and retired Amtrak engineer Craig Willett to talk about the national passenger carrier. This is the second in a multi-part conversation that began in Episode 2. Take a listen on the Trains Magazine website: http:\/\/trn.trains.com\/photos-videos\/2018\/09\/conversations-with-brian-solomon. Tracking the Light posts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trains-podcast-conversations-with-brian-solomon-episode-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trains Podcast: Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 8<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22670,"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":[4966,4903,4965,4932,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amtrak-Capitols-at-Pinole-CA-May-2008-Brian-Solomon-photo-205038-1.jpg?fit=972%2C672","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Tz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665"}],"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=22665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22671,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665\/revisions\/22671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}