{"id":37423,"date":"2023-10-21T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37423"},"modified":"2023-10-20T22:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T02:18:30","slug":"across-a-vast-expanse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/across-a-vast-expanse\/","title":{"rendered":"Across a Vast Expanse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March 1997, I was traveled from California to Denver with photographer Mel Patrick. We were returning from WinterRail &#8217;97, which was one of the great rail-photographic venues of the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade earlier Mel had published some memorable photographs of the Western Pacific in the pages of CTC Board magazine and on this trip he and I revisited some stunning locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This view looks timetable-west on Union Pacific&#8217;s former WP main line. We were perched atop a hill near West Wendover Nevada\/Utah to photograph an eastward Union Pacific intermodal train inching its way across the vast expanse of desert in eastern Nevada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For point of reference, the headend of the freight is just over three miles from our vantage point. 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