{"id":42765,"date":"2025-11-08T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42765"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:56:18","slug":"incidental-baggage-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/incidental-baggage-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidental Baggage Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this antique Ford Motor Company automobile (Model A? Not sure, I&#8217;m not an authority on antique autos ) parked near Strasburg Rail Road&#8217;s crossing of Blackhorse Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the midday train passed, I focused on the auto, allowing the train to serve as background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"42766\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/incidental-baggage-car\/strasburg_rr_blackhorse_road-old-ford_dsc_5787\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 7_2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1758215472&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Strasburg_RR_Blackhorse_Road-old-Ford_DSC_5787.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps at some point I should recreate this image by making a photo of our Honda CRV with the Viewliner baggage car on Amtrak&#8217;s <em>Pennsylvanian<\/em> as background\u2014Same concept, different equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light explores railroad image making.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this antique Ford Motor Company automobile (Model A? Not sure, I&#8217;m not an authority on antique autos ) parked near Strasburg Rail Road&#8217;s crossing of Blackhorse Road. When the midday train passed, I focused on the auto, allowing the train to serve as background. Perhaps at some point I should recreate this image &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/incidental-baggage-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incidental Baggage Car<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[7617,8416,7121],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-b7L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42765"}],"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=42765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42767,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42765\/revisions\/42767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}