{"id":37333,"date":"2023-10-29T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37333"},"modified":"2023-10-05T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T02:45:16","slug":"40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/40-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years Ago Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ok, so now I feel old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 29, 1983, I had only passed my 17th birthday a few days earlier. On that morning I traveled from The Bronx to South Amboy, New Jersey for the final day of operation of the former Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, I had built a model railroad focused on South Amboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this photo to resemble the setting of my HO scale South Amboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Jersey DOT’s GG1 4877 had been repainted in PRR’s tuscan five stripe and I wanted to make the most of the retro-look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, I was working with my 1937-vintage Leica 3A loaded with Kodak Ektachrome 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Amboy, New Jersey on the New York & Long Branch. October 29, 1983. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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New Jersey DOT’s GG1 4877 had been repainted in PRR’s tuscan five stripe and I wanted to make the most of the retro-look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37334,"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NJDOT_GG1_4877_last_day_for_GG1s_South_Amboy_NJ_Oct29_1983_\u00a9BrianSolomon_119122.jpg?fit=1800%2C1219","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333"}],"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=37333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37335,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions\/37335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}