{"id":37469,"date":"2023-10-27T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37469"},"modified":"2023-10-24T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T01:35:55","slug":"norfolk-southern-sd40e-6340-on-the-new-holland-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/norfolk-southern-sd40e-6340-on-the-new-holland-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern SD40E 6340 on the New Holland Branch."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was on my way to intercept Amtrak’s westward Pennsylvanian. As I cautiously approached the Jefferson Road grade crossing in Lancaster, I looked left and spotted the headlight of Norfolk Southern’s New Holland Branch local freight in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s some good luck! I had enough time to park the car and pick my spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the lead was Norfolk Southern SD40E 6340\u2014another former Conrail SD50. In its original incarnation, this had been Conrail 6722.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s great to live in a neighborhood where you can see trains at random times, and find them by happen-stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now to find that photo of 6722 in blue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These photos were exposed using my Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By design, this day last week I caught up with Dan Cupper and railroad artist Craig Thorpe at Black Horse Road in Strasburg. We planned our meeting to coincide with the passing of the hourly excursion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37470,"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":[7656,5383,5390],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NS_6340_w_New_Holland_local_at_Jefferson_Dr_Greenfield_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomonDSC_4724.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9Kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469"}],"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=37469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37473,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469\/revisions\/37473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}