{"id":22985,"date":"2018-12-04T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22985"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:54:44","slug":"kansas-city-amtrak-a-dome-and-a-streetcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/kansas-city-amtrak-a-dome-and-a-streetcar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City: Amtrak, a Dome and a Streetcar!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d never experienced Kansas City by rail before.<\/p>\n

This was just a brief visit, a mere layover while Amtrak no4Southwest Chief<\/em>changed crews and dropped off and collected passengers.<\/p>\n

I made photos of the car I\u2019d been traveling in: former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Budd Vista-Dome Silver Splendor <\/em>(nee: Silver Buckle).<\/em><\/p>\n

I like the contrast between the 1956-build streamlined dome and the nearly new Siemens Charger diesel-electric.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Icon; FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crew change for No.4 at Kansas City. FujiFIlm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Old and new: FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The modern streetcar was a surprise. I\u2019d forgotten that Kansas City had recently re-adopted this classic form of transport.<\/p>\n

Soon we were rolling east toward Chicago!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d never experienced Kansas City by rail before. This was just a brief visit, a mere layover while Amtrak no4Southwest Chiefchanged crews and dropped off and collected passengers. I made photos of the car I\u2019d been traveling in: former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Budd Vista-Dome Silver Splendor (nee: Silver Buckle). I like the contrast between … Continue reading Kansas City: Amtrak, a Dome and a Streetcar!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22995,"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":[3877,5023,5004,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Silver_Splendor_at_Kansas_City_DSCF8208-1.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5YJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985"}],"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=22985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22996,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions\/22996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}