{"id":24171,"date":"2019-03-04T07:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=24171"},"modified":"2019-03-04T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:37:19","slug":"drama-on-the-west-slope-conrail-sd50-at-mineral-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/drama-on-the-west-slope-conrail-sd50-at-mineral-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama on the West Slope: Conrail SD50 at Mineral Point."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>September 5, 1997\u2014the still late summer air is shattered by the roar of Conrail SD50 6711 in run-8 working an eastward coal train on the \u2018West Slope\u2019 at Mineral Point, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Conrail\u2019s former Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s busy mountain mainline that crested the Alleghenys at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania a favorite place to photograph in the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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