{"id":41908,"date":"2025-06-09T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41908"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:35:26","slug":"philadelphia-nrhs-june-19thmeeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphia-nrhs-june-19thmeeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia NRHS June 19thMeeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 7pm on June 19th, 2025, I am presenting a slide program to the Philadelphia  Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society at the Elkins Park, Pa., SEPTA Regional Rail Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will feature more than 60 years of photography of railway operations in greater Philadelphia. I am melding together a special selection of mine and my father&#8217;s photographs that will touch on a variety of subjects including Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Company, Red Arrow Lines, SEPTA, Amtrak and modern freight railroads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"41909\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphia-nrhs-june-19thmeeting\/septa_silverlinerv_and_100_norristown_pa_img_0508-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_SilverlinerV_and_100_Norristown_PA_IMG_0508-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_NO10_LANCASTER_wSkyline_IMG_2120-1.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_NO10_LANCASTER_wSkyline_IMG_2120-1.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">No. 10 Trolleys on Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia on. June 29, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See the chapter notice below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-20d2a427cd1d4e6edc92178702b57a25\"><strong>Appearing at the Philadelphia NRHS June 19<sup>th<\/sup>Meeting, at the Elkins Park SEPTA Regional Rail Station at 7pm is:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-46bdcd7f8fcc521b1fcd48ab96b71f7a\"><strong><em><u>Brian Solomon<\/u><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Noted Photographer and author of over 70 books!<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>And Marketing Director for the Conway Scenic Railroad!<\/em><\/strong><br \/><br \/><strong><em>Please join us at this specially created program by Brian on 60 years of Philadelphia railroad and Trolley photography, using his own and his dad\u2019s pictures<\/em><\/strong><br \/><br \/><strong><em>Non-Members and guests welcome!&nbsp; Especially guests from nearby NRHS and PRRT&amp;HS chapters!<\/em><br \/><br \/>We will have a raffle of donated items and baked treats at the meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-93986aebad37c72d4a28d75cb62c7fec\"><strong>SPREAD THE WORD!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7pm on June 19th, 2025, I am presenting a slide program to the Philadelphia  Chapter of the Nation Railroad Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41909,"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":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_SilverlinerV_and_100_Norristown_PA_IMG_0508-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aTW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41908"}],"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=41908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41916,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41908\/revisions\/41916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}