{"id":39203,"date":"2024-06-01T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39203"},"modified":"2024-06-01T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T20:52:13","slug":"middle-division-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/middle-division-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Division Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my first acquaintances with the east end former PRR Middle Division was Easter weekend 1988. I met my old pal TSH in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, having driven south from Rochester, NY where I was studying Photographic Illustration at RIT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that trip, I exposed Kodachrome of Conrail trains at Duncannon, Thompsontown, Mifflin and Lewistown. We missed the sweeping curve at Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t until explorations in this area a decade later with photographer Mike Gardner that I first made photos from Underpass Road in Mexico, Pa. (If there was an underpass here, there is no visible evidence of it today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend, Kris, Seamus-the-Dog and I revisited this prime photo location on Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line where the grand sweep of the track in a bucolic setting with the Tuscarora Ridge in the background makes for a favorite place to watch trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t have to wait long before the distant sound of rolling thunder announced the approach of a westward freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the first of several train that we caught here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris noted that I looked extra happy here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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