{"id":27945,"date":"2019-10-19T04:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T08:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27945"},"modified":"2019-10-20T07:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T11:00:14","slug":"conrail-extra-april-1-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-extra-april-1-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"CONRAIL EXTRA APRIL 1, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For me Conrail was always interesting to watch; I never knew what might show up next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 1, 1989, Conrail was 13, having begun operations on that date in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I awoke to find heavy snow blanketing the fields and trees of western New York. I met up with Doug Eisele and we drove out into the late season snow seeking trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coolest thing we photographed that day was this Conrail HAZ extra running east from Niagara Falls over the Southern Tier route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was always keen on the former Erie Railroad, so that made this comparatively unusual move of great interest to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I’m keeping my mind focused on completing my Conrail book. If it’s not Conrail, I’m not paying attention, which has complicated breakfast options. (That’s a Big Blue joke).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light is Conrail Focused Today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me Conrail was alway interesting to watch; I never knew what might show up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[4537,53,156],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Conrail_HAZ_extra_Sulfuric_Acid_from_Niagara_Falls_at_Alden_NY_on_former_Erie_April1_1989_1_KM\u00a9BrianSolomon-600006MP.jpg?fit=3000%2C2014","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7gJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27945"}],"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=27945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27952,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27945\/revisions\/27952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}