{"id":37655,"date":"2023-11-20T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37655"},"modified":"2023-11-16T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T01:57:45","slug":"looking-back-at-chicago-union-station-five-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/looking-back-at-chicago-union-station-five-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at Chicago Union Station\u2014Five Years Ago."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the evening of November 20, 2018, I stood at the back of the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Budd Vista Silver Buckle<\/em>\u2014then named Silver Splendor\u2013<\/em>which was positioned at the rear of Amtrak train 48 the eastward Lake Shore Limited. <\/em>As we glided away from Chicago Union Station, I made a series of digital photos using my FujiFilm XT1 fitted with a Zeiss 12mm Touit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s something magical about rolling along at speed through complex urbanity under the veil of darkness, pierced by electric lights and a prevailing sodium vapor glow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silver Splendor <\/em> was on its way east to Conway Scenic where it would be renamed Rhonda Lee<\/em>. I became very familiar with this Budd dome when I joined the ranks of Conway Scenic full time in 2019. Hard to believe these photos were made just five years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FujiFilm XT-1 with 12mm Zeiss Touit; ISO 2500, f2.8 1\/9 sec.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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On the evening of November 20, 2018, I stood at the back of the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Budd Vista Silver Buckle\u2014then named Silver Splendor\u2013which was positioned at the rear of Amtrak train 48 the eastward Lake Shore Limited. As we glided away from Chicago Union Station, I made a series of digital photos … Continue reading Looking back at Chicago Union Station\u2014Five Years Ago.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37657,"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":[5159,5030],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Departing_Chicago_Union_Station_DSCF8789.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9Nl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37655"}],"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=37655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37659,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37655\/revisions\/37659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}