{"id":22893,"date":"2018-11-27T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22893"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:47:45","slug":"brief-barstow-visit-and-a-flash-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brief-barstow-visit-and-a-flash-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Barstow Visit and a Flash From the Past."},"content":{"rendered":"

Amtrak\u2019s eastward\u00a0Southwest Chief,\u00a0<\/em>train number 4, made a relatively long stop at Barstow, California, affording me time to explore and photograph historic rolling stock (displayed near the platforms) by the Western America Railroad Museum.<\/p>\n

I find it strange to see once-familiar locomotives exhibited as static displays. In the 1990s, I regularly photographed Santa Fe\u2019s FP45, such as number 95 seen at Barstow. Back then these were working machines. Today, 95 a decayed appearing vestige of another era.<\/p>\n

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Compare the static equipment\u2014displayed like dinosaur bones to a curious public\u2014with Budd Vista dome\u00a0Silver Splendor<\/em>in consist on the\u00a0Southwest Chief.<\/em>The dome is a functional piece of equipment on its transcontinental journey from Los Angeles to its new home.<\/p>\n

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Growing up in New England, I had a childhood fascination with Barstow, which I viewed as a treeless desert Mecca of all good things Santa Fe. Although I\u2019ve photographed in Barstow several times over the years, this one short nocturnal visit was especially surreal.<\/p>\n

All photos were made handheld with my FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Zeiss Touit.<\/p>\n

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Amtrak\u2019s eastward\u00a0Southwest Chief,\u00a0train number 4, made a relatively long stop at Barstow, California, affording me time to explore and photograph historic rolling stock (displayed near the platforms) by the Western America Railroad Museum. I find it strange to see once-familiar locomotives exhibited as static displays. In the 1990s, I regularly photographed Santa Fe\u2019s FP45, such … Continue reading Brief Barstow Visit and a Flash From the Past.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22903,"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":[5008,5004,80,1087,620],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Silver_Splendor_UP_SD40-2_Barstow_California_DSCF7604-2-1.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22893"}],"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=22893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22902,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22893\/revisions\/22902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}