{"id":31119,"date":"2021-05-01T08:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31119"},"modified":"2021-05-01T08:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T12:24:35","slug":"amtrak-is-50-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-is-50-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak is 50 Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 1, 1971, Amtrak was born\u2014Fifty years ago today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote about Amtrak’s 50th anniversary in my May 2021 Trains column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To commemorate this half-century mark on Tracking the Light, I’m posting this scan of a color slide I that I exposed back in October 2000 of Amtrak P42 No. 1 crossing the Quaboag River at West Warren, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, I was working to fulfill a assignment for Mark Hemphill, then editor of Trains. Ultimately, Trains used a similar view of this same locomotive on this same bridge that I made a few days later. That photo showed P42 No. 1 panned using a slow shutter speed to convey speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome using a Nikon N90S. Amtrak train No. 449 the Lake Shore Limited<\/em>, westbound at West Warren, MA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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