{"id":39931,"date":"2024-09-05T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39931"},"modified":"2024-09-05T07:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T11:27:18","slug":"changing-light-at-christiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/changing-light-at-christiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Light at Christiana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During late summer and early autumn the evening  light changes quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare these views of Amtrak 651 at Christiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first was exposed on August 14th, the second was yesterday evening (Sept 4). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other differences too. The top photo was made with my Nikon Z7-II, the bottom is a product of my Lumix LX7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having just composed a summary of the Metroliner for my Amtrak book, I&#8217;m feeling nostalgic about these old cars (one leads as a &#8216;cab car&#8217;  in the bottom photo) which are now some of the oldest in revenue service on Amtrak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"39932\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/changing-light-at-christiana\/amtrak_651_w_acs-64_607_prr_station_christiana_pa_briansolomon_dsc_1351-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_651_w_ACS-64_607_PRR_station_Christiana_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1351-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_651_w_ACS-64_607_PRR_station_Christiana_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1351-2.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_651_w_ACS-64_607_PRR_station_Christiana_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1351-2.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_651_w_ACS-64_607_PRR_station_Christiana_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1351-2.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_651_w_ACS-64_607_PRR_station_Christiana_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1351-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, 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data-image-title=\"Amtrak_Keystone_651_Christiana_PA_station_\u00a9BrianSolomon_P1130503\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_Keystone_651_Christiana_PA_station_\u00a9BrianSolomon_P1130503.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_Keystone_651_Christiana_PA_station_\u00a9BrianSolomon_P1130503.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_Keystone_651_Christiana_PA_station_\u00a9BrianSolomon_P1130503.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_Keystone_651_Christiana_PA_station_\u00a9BrianSolomon_P1130503.jpg?w=2048 2048w, 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Panasonic Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9f9f512c6876f3b90d5b3e50d0aac066\" style=\"color:#de5a3a\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare these views of Amtrak 651 at Christiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39932,"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":[8068,5073],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Amtrak_651_w_ACS-64_607_PRR_station_Christiana_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_1351-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-ao3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931"}],"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=39931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39936,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931\/revisions\/39936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}