{"id":41914,"date":"2025-06-12T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41914"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:24:38","slug":"philadelphias-trains-and-trolleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphias-trains-and-trolleys\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Trains and Trolleys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just one more week until my 7pm illustrated program featuring more than 6 decades of photography of Philadelphia&#8217;s Trains and Trolleys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will held by the Philadelphia Chapter NRHS at the Elkins Park SEPTA station  on June 19th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will include a variety of photographs. Many of them are from  mine and my father&#8217;s archives, including this December 31, 2016 view looking west  on Girard Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"41915\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphias-trains-and-trolleys\/septa_route_15_trolley_w_amtrak_keystone_raw_dscf9772\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483187415&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;98.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772-1022x681.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_Route_15_Trolley_w_Amtrak_Keystone_RAW_DSCF9772.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Exposed using a FujiFilm XT1 with 18-135mm lens set to 99mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2e6f4c50974a14d8712117c0559b4b3b\" style=\"color:#256916f0\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Trains and Trolleys! At 7pm on June 19th, 2025, I will present a slide program to the Philadelphia  Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society at the Elkins Park, Pa., SEPTA Regional Rail Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41917,"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":[5028,5124,5071,8334],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEPTA_DSCF9772.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aU2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41914"}],"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=41914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41918,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41914\/revisions\/41918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}