{"id":37511,"date":"2023-11-01T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37511"},"modified":"2023-10-30T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T02:23:13","slug":"branch-with-a-view-november-1-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/branch-with-a-view-november-1-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Branch with a View-November 1, 1996."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this day in 1996, I was driving from Wisconsin to Massachusetts in a U-Haul truck with most of  my worldly belongings (including the majority of my photographs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you believe me if I told you that I took a detour to follow the old Erie Railroad main line across New York&#8217;s Southern Tier, and when I heard on the scanner that an eastward coal train was through Hornell, I drove the U-Haul into a grave yard on the banks of the Canisteo River, climbed a tree and exposed this series of color 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