{"id":42412,"date":"2025-08-06T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42412"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:37:36","slug":"mon-con-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mon-con-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon-Con Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On my visit to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania last week, I took the opportunity to photograph some of the outdoor displays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the last photos that I exposed was of former Monongahela Connecting Railroad Alco C-415 701 that had nice light on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve seen several preserved Alco Century-series-415 diesels, this was never a common model, and I never caught one in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposed using my Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens, NEF RAW file processed in Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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