{"id":39525,"date":"2024-07-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39525"},"modified":"2024-07-12T22:09:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T02:09:37","slug":"from-the-window-of-train-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/from-the-window-of-train-61\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Window of Train 61."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In August 1984, I was traveling overnight on Amtrak’s Montrealer<\/em>\u2014train 61\u2014from its Canadian namesake to Washington D.C. Approaching Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, I made this view with a Leica 3A rangefinder. The camera was fitted with an antique uncoated 50mm Elmar, which resulted in images with broad tonality, but low contrast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exposing through Amtrak’s windows further reduced contrast and sharpness, but the effect is almost ethereal and dreamlike. Gliding along, I was witnessing mid-1980s railroading the way I like to remember it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Conrail freight was crossing the elevated High Line. While in the yard sat several sets of ‘Capitolliners’\u2014the original Budd-built ‘Metroliner’ cars that had been rebuilt and were serving the Keystone corridor to Harrisburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember the Metroliner cars in the 1970s when they worked their namesake highspeed services between New York and Washington, but this is one of the few photos I made of the cars as ‘Capitolliners’, which today makes it special. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been re-reseaching the ground-breaking Metroliner <\/em>for my new book on Amtrak equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost daily, I see these old Metroliner cars which still work to Harrisburg, but now as neutered (unpowered) control cabs on the Keystone<\/em> trains. Today, they are now among the oldest Amtrak cars in regular revenue service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Central to this photo I made through the window of Train 61 are the sets of Capitoliner multiple units.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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In August 1984, I was traveling overnight on Amtrak’s Montrealer\u2014train 61\u2014from its Canadian namesake to Washington D.C. Approaching Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, I made this view with a Leica 3A rangefinder. The camera was fitted with an antique uncoated 50mm Elmar, which resulted in images with broad tonality, but low contrast. Exposing through Amtrak’s windows … Continue reading From the Window of Train 61.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39527,"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":[8019,8021,8020,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Capitol_Liner_Philadelphia_PAAug1984\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578018-2.jpg?fit=1700%2C1011","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-ahv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39525"}],"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=39525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39528,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39525\/revisions\/39528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}