{"id":38075,"date":"2024-01-16T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38075"},"modified":"2024-01-15T22:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:35:14","slug":"two-for-one-at-christiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/two-for-one-at-christiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Two for One at Christiana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fortune was with us on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After lunch, we drove the back way over to Christiana, Pa., where I hoped to catch Amtrak 670 in the afternoon sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tracks are oriented on a south-north alignment at Christiana, which makes it a good place to photograph eastward train on a sunny day, if you mind the shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where<em> Keystone <\/em>670 was pretty much &#8216;on the advertised,&#8217; Amtrak 42, the eastward<em> Pennsylvanian<\/em> had fallen down a bit, and was just a few minutes behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for the effort of one eastward train, we caught two! 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