{"id":42158,"date":"2025-07-12T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42158"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:18:07","slug":"nice-light-on-a-keystone-shorty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/nice-light-on-a-keystone-shorty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Light on a Keystone Shorty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday evening, Kris, Seamus, and I paused at Leaman Place in Paradise to roll by Amtrak Keystone <\/em>649 that was racing toward its Lancaster, Pa., station stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The light was perfect. Clear sky with rich low sun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often at Leaman Place, I’ve used a telephoto lens. But yesterday, after experimenting with several moderate focal lengths, I settled on a wideangle view made with my 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom. I set the lens to 27mm. My shutter speed was 1\/1600. This nicely stopped the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was impressed by the freshly painted Amfleet cars in the consist. These wore Amtrak’s latest Phase VII scheme. Only after I downloaded and examined these photos did I notice that this was a short consist. Keystone <\/em>trains are typcially five cars, this one was only four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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