{"id":41950,"date":"2025-06-15T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41950"},"modified":"2025-06-14T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T02:07:19","slug":"up-close-with-an-e44-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/up-close-with-an-e44-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close with an E44 Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My third Railroad Photography 101 Class was a success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was held at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the first part of this 3rd session was conducted outside, the last part of the class was held inside the Museum in the main hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museum Director Patrick Morrison asked if we would like to explore some of the restored locomotives and cars on exhibit in the hall and offered to open up a few of the museum’s gems for photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a wonderful idea, and soon the students and I were climbing in and around the exhibits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had never before been on a Pennsylvania Railroad E44 electric, so it was a thrill for me to take a look inside and sit in the engineer’s seat. These boxy high-horsepower electrics were built by General Electric and share a resemblence with GE’s diesel-electrics built around the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My photos for this exercise were exposed using a Nikon Z7-II with a 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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