{"id":24164,"date":"2019-03-03T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=24164"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:33:12","slug":"misty-morning-at-spruce-creek-pennsylvania-april-1-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/misty-morning-at-spruce-creek-pennsylvania-april-1-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Misty Morning at Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1988."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24166\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/misty-morning-at-spruce-creek-pennsylvania-april-1-1988\/conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_spruce_creek_pa_april_1_1988_km_brian-solomon-494734-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?fit=1287%2C852\" data-orig-size=\"1287,852\" 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=\"Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian Solomon 494734\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?fit=709%2C469\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?fit=474%2C314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?resize=474%2C314\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24166\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?w=1287 1287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?resize=709%2C469 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?resize=1022%2C677 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Kodachrome 25 slide exposed using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was Conrail\u2019s 12<sup>th<\/sup>birthday! And that was many years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My old pal TSH and I were exploring the former Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division and visited Spruce Creek where we photographed this eastward freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old heavy-weight sleeping car converted for Penn-Central\/Conrail maintenance of way (work equipment) makes the photograph fascinating. I&#8217;d never seen cars like this in revenue service and simply having relics like it on the move connected me to an earlier era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing this Kodachrome 25 slide makes me yearn for the days when we\u2019d be trackside on Conrail and never know what might pass. It seemed a like endless adventure and every train brought something new and unexpected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather? Not great, but I\u2019d stand there now without complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old heavy-weight sleeping car converted for Penn-Central\/Conrail maintenance of way (work equipment) makes the photograph fascinating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24166,"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":[5388,4537,53,7535,199,1231,2520],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Conrail_local_freight_w_old_passenger_car_at_Spruce_Creek_PA_April_1_1988_KM_Brian-Solomon-494734-1.jpg?fit=1287%2C852","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6hK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164"}],"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=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24170,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions\/24170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}