{"id":23551,"date":"2019-01-14T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23551"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:33:12","slug":"on-the-old-erie-railroad-30-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-the-old-erie-railroad-30-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"On the old Erie Railroad 30 years ago Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>This morning, January 14, 2019, I scanned a Kodachrome slide that had been hiding for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was on January 14, 1989 that I spent the morning photographing Conrail\u2019s former Erie railroad line between Hornell and Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Portageville, I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide of Delaware &amp; Hudson\/New York, Susquehanna &amp; Western Sealand doublestack train symbol NY10 with SD45 3630 working east. 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