{"id":33715,"date":"2022-06-23T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33715"},"modified":"2022-06-22T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T01:42:15","slug":"cp-rail-i-94-and-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cp-rail-i-94-and-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"CP Rail-I-94-and bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twelve years ago, June 23, 2010, John Gruber and I were following a Canadian Pacific local freight on the former Milwaukee Road north of Madison, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were set up near where the railroad ducks under Interstate-94. 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