{"id":38092,"date":"2024-01-19T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38092"},"modified":"2024-01-19T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:55:42","slug":"foray-to-lykens-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/foray-to-lykens-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Foray to Lykens, PA."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early in the winter, we drove north into coal country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was curious to visit Lykens, a comparatively remote Pennsylvania town, that was once at the end of a Reading Company line which had included a switchback near Tower City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon reaching Lykens, we found little evidence of the old Reading, now many decades gone. However, we located the old Pennsylvania Railroad station and yard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The station is now a museum, although it was closed on the afternoon of our visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Market Street in Lykens, where a branch of the PRR once crossed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The tracks were lifted a long time ago, but the old PRR station at Lykens survives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upon reaching Lykens, we found little evidence of the old Reading, now many decades gone. However, we located the old Pennsylvania Railroad station and yard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38095,"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":[7789,7788,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PRR_station_in_Lykens_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_5782.jpg?fit=1700%2C1133","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9Uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092"}],"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=38092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38097,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092\/revisions\/38097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}