{"id":41404,"date":"2025-03-23T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41404"},"modified":"2025-03-22T21:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T01:45:38","slug":"the-last-train-to-parkesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-last-train-to-parkesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Train to Parkesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As an allusion to the old Monkees song, I made this series of Amtrak <em>Keystone <\/em>657 making its evening station stop at Parkesburg, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On weekdays this is the last train of the evening to stop at the old Pennsylvania Railroad station in Parkesburg, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made these photos with my Nikon Z6 mounted on a 3Pod tripod, the camera was set to ISO 16000. 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