{"id":29111,"date":"2020-05-11T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29111"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:11:23","slug":"alco-at-meadville-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/alco-at-meadville-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Alco at Meadville, Pennsylvania."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the June 2020 Trains Magazine my monthly column features an interview with career railroader Mike Lacey, who started with Erie Lackawanna in 1968 and cut his teeth at the former Erie yards at Meadville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made this view on a visit to Meadville with fellow photographers Pat Yough and Tim Doherty on October 12, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western New York &amp; Pennsylvania\u2019s former New York Central C-430 3000 was working the yard with engineer Chris Southwell at the throttle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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