{"id":37778,"date":"2023-12-06T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37778"},"modified":"2023-12-03T21:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:51:24","slug":"25-years-ago-on-stevens-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/25-years-ago-on-stevens-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago on Stevens Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December 1998, I had a brief gig as a narrator\/commentator on the <em>Leavenworth Snow Train<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ran with an Amtrak consist between Seattle and Leavenworth, Washington to bring excursionists to the recreated Bavarian village situated on the west slope of Stevens Pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one of the trips, I made this photo of the train near Leavenworth as passengers made the tranfer to school buses to reach the nearby Bavarian village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"321\" data-attachment-id=\"37779\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/25-years-ago-on-stevens-pass\/amtrak_f59phi_461_on_stevens_pass_with_leavenworth_snow_trainbriansolomon_119382\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?fit=1800%2C1219\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1219\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9BrianSolomon2023&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?fit=709%2C480\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?fit=474%2C321\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?resize=474%2C321\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?w=1800 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?resize=709%2C480 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?resize=1022%2C692 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?resize=1536%2C1040 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amtrak F59PHi 461 on Stevens Pass with the <em>Leavenworth Snow Train. <\/em>Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#2e4b92\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1998, I had a brief gig as a narrator\/commentator on the Leavenworth Snow Train. This ran with an Amtrak consist between Seattle and Leavenworth, Washington to bring excursionists to the recreated Bavarian village situated on the west slope of Stevens Pass. On one of the trips, I made this photo of the train &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/25-years-ago-on-stevens-pass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 Years Ago on Stevens Pass<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37779,"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":[7734,7733,5075],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Amtrak_F59PHi_461_on_Stevens_Pass_with_Leavenworth_Snow_Train\u00a9BrianSolomon_119382.jpg?fit=1800%2C1219","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9Pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37778"}],"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=37778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37781,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37778\/revisions\/37781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}