{"id":39257,"date":"2024-06-06T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39257"},"modified":"2024-06-03T21:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T01:14:34","slug":"coal-train-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/coal-train-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Train in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kris, Seamus-the-Dog and I had spent a productive afternoon along the old PRR Middle Division. It was bright and sunny when we arrived, but thunderstorms had blown in from the west. What started as a sprinkle had rapidly turned into a raging Monsoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looming out the deluge at Thomsontown, Pa., was this eastward Norfolk Southern loaded unit coal train. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I set the camera shutter to a 1\/8000th of second to freeze the rain drops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"39258\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/coal-train-in-the-rain\/ns_coal_train_in_rain_near_thomsontown_pa_briansolomon_dsc_1363\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NS_coal_train_in_rain_near_Thomsontown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1363.jpg?fit=1700%2C1131\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1131\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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