{"id":29016,"date":"2020-04-23T08:12:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29016"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:12:47","slug":"pittsburgh-light-rail-october-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pittsburgh-light-rail-october-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Light Rail October 1992."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29017\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pittsburgh-light-rail-october-1992\/pittsburgh_pcc_oct12-1992briansolomon592746\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1730\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1730\" 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=\"Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?fit=709%2C479\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?fit=474%2C320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?resize=474%2C320\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29017\" width=\"474\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?w=2560 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?resize=709%2C479 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?resize=1022%2C691 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1038 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1384 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pittsburgh_PCC_Oct12-1992\u00a9BrianSolomon592746-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 12, 1992, my father and I traveled on the Pittsburgh Light Rail, traversing both the 47 Shannon and Drake Shuttle routes where vintage PCC cars still roamed. Both lines are now defunct. Later in the day, my brother Sean and I revisited these lines by road to make a few more photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On that trip, I exposed this Kodachrome slide with my Nikon F3T fitted with a 35mm perspective control lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was aiming to fill the frame with the rarely photographed PCC car, in retrospect I wished that I\u2019d allowed a little more space around the streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m happy to have made this photo, since it was my only photographic adventure with the Pittsburgh PCCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#2f33bf\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 12, 1992, my father and I traveled on the Pittsburgh Light Rail, traversing both the 47 Shannon and Drake Shuttle routes where vintage PCC cars still roamed. Both lines are now defunct. 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