{"id":39454,"date":"2024-07-03T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39454"},"modified":"2024-07-01T22:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T02:51:57","slug":"reading-northern-freight-at-pittston-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northern-freight-at-pittston-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#038; Northern freight at Pittston Junction."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We called into Pittston Junction, Pennsylvania in the early evening, just in time to catch several Reading &amp; Northern trains on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using my Nikon Z mirrorless cameras, I made this sequence of photos of a job working the former Lehigh Valley Railroad Coxton Yard. 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