{"id":35287,"date":"2023-01-24T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35287"},"modified":"2023-01-24T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:05:38","slug":"1980s-retro-passes-gap-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/1980s-retro-passes-gap-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"1980s-Retro passes Gap, Pennsylvania."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was lucky last Wednesday as Amtrak P42 number 145 wearing ‘Phase III’ heritage paint was leading train #42,<\/em> the eastward Pennsylvanian.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the so-called Amtrak Phase III was introduced in the mid-1970s, for me it represents the predominant scheme that adorned Amtrak locomotives during the 1980s. I made countless color slides of F40PH diesels, and AEM-7 and E60 electrics in this scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amtrak repainted a several of its P42 Genesis diesels in 2011 to mark the railroad’s 40th Anniversary. In addition, several of Amtrak’s dual-mode 700-series Genesis units have also been painted in this scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was delighted to catch Amtrak 145 working the old Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line at Gap, Pennsylvania, and made a series of digital images using my Nikon Z-series digital cameras. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Z-series zoom. Photo cropped for effect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Z-series zoom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I was lucky last Wednesday as Amtrak P42 number 145 wearing the retor ‘Phase III’ heritage paint scheme was leading train #42, the eastward Pennsylvanian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35290,"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":[5028,4436,7074,5131,4537,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Amtrak_P42_145_at-Gap_on_train_42_DSC_0534.jpg?fit=1900%2C1124","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287"}],"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=35287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35296,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions\/35296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}