{"id":32375,"date":"2021-12-01T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32375"},"modified":"2021-11-30T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:11:04","slug":"idle-freight-in-an-austere-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/idle-freight-in-an-austere-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Freight in an Austere Landscape."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the train watching platform in Rochelle, Illinois, a scanner is perpetually broadcasting railroad radio chatter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our brief visit there a couple of weeks back, Kris and I overheard BNSF’s dispatcher discussing with unknown parties the status of an eastward unit tank train tied down near Steward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armed with this knowledge we drove railroad east through the sprawing industry and cornfields toward Steward, where we found the afforementioned freight. It was crew-less and its headlight extinguished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made these photos with my Nikon Z6 and 70-200mm Nikkor zoom lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Looks at Illinois!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kris and I overheard BNSF’s dispatcher discussing with unknown parties the status of an eastward unit tank train tied down near Steward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":[4537,7003,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BNSF_4177_near_Steward_Illinois_DSC_0794.jpg?fit=1600%2C933","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375"}],"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=32375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32381,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375\/revisions\/32381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}