{"id":41777,"date":"2025-05-22T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41777"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:33:55","slug":"a-rare-alco-under-a-dramatic-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-rare-alco-under-a-dramatic-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Alco under a Dramatic Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Alco S-6 switcher was an uncommon model. Just over 125 were built, and only a few survive in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris, Seamus-the-dog and I were driving around on summer evening. Clouds were starting to give way when we approached Middletown, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old Middletown & Hummelstown was quiet, but Alco S-6 number 151 (dressed for the late Western Maryland) was parked near the railroad’s Middletown station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made a few photos using my Nikon Z7-II, looking for various ways to compose the same essential elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Alco S-6 switcher was an uncommon model. Just over 125 were built, and only a few survive in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41778,"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":[6071,7069,7674],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Middletown__Hummelstown_Alco_S-6_Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3961.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aRP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777"}],"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=41777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41782,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions\/41782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}