{"id":41125,"date":"2025-02-08T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41125"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:33:45","slug":"trolley-stop-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trolley-stop-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolley Stop Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes a wide-angle works better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SEPTA&#8217;s Media trolley is seen working east on State Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years ago I&#8217;d made photos at this location. I like it because it features the Trolley Stop Motel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often when an establishment makes an allustion to a trolley, the trolley and its tracks are but a distant memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such is not the case in Media, Pennsylvania!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"292\" data-attachment-id=\"41126\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trolley-stop-motel\/septa_101_media_trolley_media_pa_trolley_stop_moteldsc_3261\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?fit=2048%2C1261\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1261\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 7_2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1737825230&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;36&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?fit=709%2C437\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?fit=474%2C292\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?resize=474%2C292&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41126\" style=\"width:799px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?resize=709%2C437 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?resize=1022%2C629 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?resize=205%2C126 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?resize=1536%2C946 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nikkor 24-70mm Z-series lens set to 36mm. Note the position of the streetcar in the frame relative to the motel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when an establishment makes an allustion to a trolley, the trolley and its tracks are but a distant memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41126,"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":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SEPTA_101_Media_trolley_Media_PA_Trolley_Stop_MotelDSC_3261.jpg?fit=2048%2C1261","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aHj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125"}],"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=41125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41127,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions\/41127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}