{"id":41501,"date":"2025-04-08T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41501"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:48:40","slug":"spring-classic-trains-silver-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/spring-classic-trains-silver-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Classic Trains\u2014Silver Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Spring 2025 Issue of Classic Trains is the magazine’s 25th Anniversary. To mark this publishing milepost, Editor Brian M. Schmidt created a Silver theme and asked me to write two features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My article, ‘Philadelphia’s Ground Breaking Budd Silverliners’ starts on page 30, and features several of my father’s vintage Kodachrome images. On page 68, ‘Classics Today’, offers my personal story ‘Saving Silver Splendor’ that describes a cross-country journey with a former Burlington Budd-built Vista Dome on its way to becoming Conway Scenic Railroad’s Rhonda Lee, an event that ultimately led to my marketing position with the railroad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silver Splendor at Galesburg, Illinois on Amtrak train No.4 Southwest Chief<\/em> in November 2018. This classic Budd dome was on its way east to the Conway Scenic Railroad where it would be renamed Rhonda Lee.<\/em> I exposed this photo during a station stop using my first FujiFilm XT1. This is one of several photos of the car that appears in Spring 2025 Classic Trains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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