{"id":41435,"date":"2025-03-29T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41435"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:14:28","slug":"h23-at-lancaster-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/h23-at-lancaster-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"H23 at Lancaster Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been exploring the old Reading & Columbia lines that were once on the periphery of the Reading Company network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve paid several visits to Lancaster Junction, where lines to Lancaster and Columbia one diverged, but until Wednesday I’d not seen a steel wheel turn at this relatively obscure location in Lancaster county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South of the old Junction, the line heading toward Columbia via Landisville is now a trail. While the route to Lancaster is a Norfolk Southern branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after I arrived on this most recent visit, I heard a whistle blast for a distant grade crossing and after a few minutes Norfolk Southern local freight H23 made an appearance. This was on its way to Manheim and Lititz, Pa. Clouds danced across the sky as I made a series of photographs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these images using my Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shortly after I arrived on this most recent visit, I heard a whistle blast for a distant grade crossing and after a few minutes Norfolk Southern local freight H23 made an appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41438,"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":[8256,8097,7568,8255],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_6977_w_H23_Lititz_local_at_Lancaster_JunctionDSC_3977.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aMj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41435"}],"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=41435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41441,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41435\/revisions\/41441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}