{"id":35355,"date":"2023-02-01T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35355"},"modified":"2023-02-01T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:49:33","slug":"strasburg-rail-road-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/strasburg-rail-road-freight\/","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg Rail Road Freight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Strasburg Rail Road is best known for its steam excursions, but the railroad is a common carrier and operates a thriving local freight business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our visit to the Strasburg, PA area last month, I was lucky to catch one of their freights on the move. This was led by the railroad’s former New York Central SW8 diesel 8618.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This classic General Motors Electro-Motive Division swticher was built for New York Central System c1953 and carried the number 9618. It is painted in a neo-New York Central scheme, and was Conrail 8618 for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1980s, I made many photos of Conrail switchers, and I wonder if somewhere among my slides and negatives I may have a photo of this locomotive in its former existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strasburg Rail Road SW8 8618<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strasburg Rail Road local freight viewed from Carpenters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SW8 8618 with two boxcars at Leaman Place along Amtrak’s Keystone Corridor\u2014<\/em>the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This classic General Motors Electro-Motive Division swticher was built for New York Central System c1953 and carried the number 9618. It is painted in a neo-New York Central scheme, and was Conrail 8618 for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35358,"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":[],"tags":[5131,5073,7121,7157,7535,7536],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Strasburg_Railroad_8618_w_freight_at_Leaman_Place_DSC_0544.jpg?fit=1900%2C995","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355"}],"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=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35360,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions\/35360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}