{"id":41339,"date":"2025-03-11T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41339"},"modified":"2025-03-10T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T02:12:59","slug":"sunset-on-the-pennsylvania-railroad-and-no-p5s-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunset-on-the-pennsylvania-railroad-and-no-p5s-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset on the Pennsylvania Railroad and No P5s for Me."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During our forays along the old Pennsylvania Railroad, I sometimes like to imagine what it would have been like to witness the passing of the railroad’s great electrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I never saw them pass Gap, I remember seeing the GG1s, and to a limited extent, PRR’s E44s on other portions of the electrified system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father made photos of PRR’s P5 boxcabs, streamlined ‘P5A modified’ electrics, among the more obscure types that worked under wire more than a half century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week as the late winter glow colored the evening sky in Christiana, Pa., I looked to the west as headlights illuminate the rails. As the train approached, I was expecting one of Amtrak’s ACS-64 electrics to pass me in a flash, but wondered what it would have been like to see a pair of the P5\/P5A electrics pass with a freight. That really would have been cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos exposed using my Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom. Files exposed in NEF RAW format, converted to PNG format using DxO PureRaw, and adjusted for final presentation with Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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