{"id":23616,"date":"2019-01-19T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23616"},"modified":"2019-01-19T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:18:21","slug":"empire-builder-bloody-nose-and-a-snow-squall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/empire-builder-bloody-nose-and-a-snow-squall\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Builder, Bloody Nose and a Snow Squall."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Friday afternoon January 18, 2019, Trains Magazine\u2019s Brian Schmidt and I visited Duplainville, Wisconsin to catch Amtrak\u2019s westward Empire builder, train number 7, as it split the signals in a snow squall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak P42 50 leads train number 7 west at Duplainville, Wisconsin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was delighted to see that the Milwaukee Road-vintage searchlight signals that I remember from my days in Wisconsin (now more than two decades ago) are still active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third locomotive in the Builder\u2019s consist was the elusive Amtrak 156, \u2018the bloody nose\u2019\u2014so named for its wearing of the 1970s-era Amtrak paint scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I exposed these views using my FujiFilm X-T1 with 90mm f2.0 telephoto. White balance set to \u2018daylight\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local photographers had gathered for Amtrak’s daily passing.


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Amtrak 156 is one of several ‘heritage’ locomotives wearing paint schemes from years gone by..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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as delighted to see that the Milwaukee Road-vintage searchlight signals that I remember from my days in Wisconsin (now more than two decades ago) are still active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23617,"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":[5201,5204,4537,4489,31,606,7535,466],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Amtrak_No7_Duplainville_DSCF0879.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-68U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616"}],"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=23616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23620,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616\/revisions\/23620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}