{"id":36880,"date":"2023-08-10T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=36880"},"modified":"2023-08-08T21:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T01:35:49","slug":"philadelphia-reading-bridge-harrisburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphia-reading-bridge-harrisburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia & Reading Bridge\u2014Harrisburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Third time’s the charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2009, I made my first visit to the former Philadelphia & Reading arched bridge over the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that stage, I was still using film exclusively, and using my Canon EOS-3 loaded with Fujichrome, I made some photos of the bridge sans train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris and I paid another visit to the bridge in March of 2022, Again, I made photos of the arches, but no luck catching anything on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toward the end of July, I made my third visit. This time fortune favored me. Not long after I parked on South Front Street, I heard a horn to the west and soon an eastward Norfolk Southern train came rolling across the arches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these images using my Lumix LX7 and Nikon Z6 cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Z6 with Nikkor f2.8 180mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had the Z6 set up with my 1980s-era Nikkor f2.8 180mm prime telephoto. While a very sharp lens, this is operated manually, which makes focusing a little tricky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This time fortune favored me. Not long after I parked on South Front Street, I heard a horn to the west and soon an eastward Norfolk Southern train came rolling across the arches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36885,"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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5518,7545,6488,5131,7634,6616],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NS_on_Reading_Company_bridge_in_Harrisburg_P1100164.jpg?fit=1800%2C996","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9AQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36880"}],"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=36880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36887,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36880\/revisions\/36887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}