{"id":33170,"date":"2022-04-10T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33170"},"modified":"2022-04-09T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:14:49","slug":"treasures-in-the-railroad-museum-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/treasures-in-the-railroad-museum-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg is among America’s finest railway museums. Not only does the museum have one of the best collections of significant locomotives, rolling stock and artifacts, but their indoor display offers superb interpretation in a railroad themed environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During our visit on St. Patrick’s Day, I made these photos using my Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adobe Lightroom is an excellent tool for processing museum photos because it easily enables lightening of shadow, controlling highlights and contrast, while adjusting color temperature and color balance. This allows for significantly more pleasing images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Statue of Pennsylvania Railroad’s Alexander Cassatt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pennsylvania Railroad baggage car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kris poses in front of Pennsylvania Railroad class D16sb 4-4-0. In 1981, I traveled behind this antique on the Strasburg Rail Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pennsylvania Railroad 5901, the only surviving Electro-Motive Division E7A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Detail of a statue of Baldwin Locomotive Works founder, Matthias Baldwin (1795-1866).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pennsylvania Railroad class B1 electric 5690.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On January 1, 1980, I photographed this former PRR GG1 electric at New Haven, Connecticut. Today, it is one many locomotives displayed at the railroad museum of Pennsylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Union Switch & Signal color light once authorized train movements on the Reading Company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg is among America’s finest railway museums. Not only does the museum have one of the best collections of significant locomotives, rolling stock and artifacts, but their indoor display offers superb interpretation in a railroad themed environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33179,"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":[7153,6628,7152,7151,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PRR_GG1_4935_RRMofPA_DSC_4324.jpg?fit=1700%2C1131","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8D0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170"}],"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=33170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33181,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170\/revisions\/33181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}