{"id":36786,"date":"2023-08-02T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=36786"},"modified":"2023-08-01T21:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:19:04","slug":"norfolk-southerns-first-responder-training-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/norfolk-southerns-first-responder-training-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern’s First Responder Training Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week Norfolk Southern hosted an event at its Harrisburg, Pennsylvania yard geared toward training first responders on the details of railroad cars and locomotives, and focused on how to handle a variety of different tank cars carrying hazardous materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representing Trains Magazine, I accompanied Dan Cupper and Rich Roberts on invitation from the railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were met by Connor Spielmaker and Mike Pucci from NS Corporate Communications, who gave attending journalists a safety briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Everything at NS starts with safety.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key to the event was NS’s special assembled Operation Awareness & Response safety train than makes annual tours of the NS network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spent several hours observing the first responders and their trainers, with opportunities to ask questions and make photographs. While I gathered material that may be used in future articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these images using my Nikon Z6. Some of the telephoto views were exposed using my 1980s-vintage Nikkor f2.8 180mm ED manual focus fixed telephoto lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with Nikkor f2.8 180mm ED telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with Nikkor f2.8 180mm ED telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with Nikkor f2.8 180mm ED telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with Nikkor f2.8 180mm ED telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series zoom lens. Interior view of a tank car set up with a passage designed to demonstrate the construction of the car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks to everyone at Norfolk Southern for making this event possible and to Dan Cupper for extending the invitation. His story on the Trains Newswire can be viewed through this link;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More important than ever: NS First Responders Train<\/a><\/blockquote>