{"id":32509,"date":"2021-12-20T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32509"},"modified":"2021-12-19T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T03:22:32","slug":"helpers-at-gallitzin-1989-and-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/helpers-at-gallitzin-1989-and-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpers at Gallitzin\u20141989 and 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Much has changed at the summit of the Allegheny Divide in 22 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1990s Conrail enlarged the tunnel clearances on one tunnel and added a second track while abandoning an adjacent bore. Conrail operations were conveyed to Norfolk Southern in 1999, and a new bridge was built over the tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month on our visit to the Tunnel Inn at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, I made a variety of photos of Norfolk Southern trains passing through the tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought it would be neat to pair these helper images with vintage photos of Conrail trains from approximately the same location that I made on Kodachrome 25 back in July 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conrail SD40-2s working as rear-end helpers at milepost 248 in Gallitzin, PA. July 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Norfolk Southern helpers, November 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Norfolk Southern helpers, November 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Last month on our visit to the Tunnel Inn at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, I made a variety of photos of Norfolk Southern trains passing through the tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32511,"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":[4537,7535,2227],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NS_easbtound_helpers_at_Gallitzin_Tunnels_mp248_P1030471.jpg?fit=1500%2C1125","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509"}],"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=32509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32514,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions\/32514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}