{"id":42825,"date":"2025-11-15T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42825"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:24:01","slug":"retro-painted-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/retro-painted-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro-Painted Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the last month, Amtrak&#8217;s <em>Pennsylvanian<\/em> (New York-Philadelphia-Pittsburgh)  has regularly sported a GE P42 diesel in heritage paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fond of catching locomotive 130, which wears the so-deemed &#8220;Phase 2&#8221; scheme\u2014reminiscent of Amtrak&#8217;s F40PH diesels and E60 electrics in the 1970s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a Nikon Z mirror-less camera, I made these photos of Train 43 as it worked westbound along the former Pennsylvania Railroad near Lancaster, Pa..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"311\" data-attachment-id=\"42828\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/retro-painted-genesis\/20251012-amtrak_p42_130_heritage_paint_train_43_shelley_lane_lancaster_pa_briansolomon_dsc_4893-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1344\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1344\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1760293822&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;29&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?fit=709%2C465\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?fit=474%2C311\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?resize=474%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?resize=709%2C465 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?resize=1022%2C671 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1008 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4893-1.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"42829\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/retro-painted-genesis\/20251012-amtrak_p42_130_heritage_paint_train_43_shelley_lane_lancaster_pa_briansolomon_dsc_4895\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?fit=2048%2C1359\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1359\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1760293823&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;29&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?fit=709%2C470\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?fit=474%2C314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?resize=474%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?resize=709%2C470 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?resize=1022%2C678 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?resize=1536%2C1019 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4895.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"42830\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/retro-painted-genesis\/20251012-amtrak_p42_130_heritage_paint_train_43_shelley_lane_lancaster_pa_briansolomon_dsc_4897\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?fit=2048%2C1359\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1359\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1760293823&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;29&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?fit=709%2C470\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?fit=474%2C314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?resize=474%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?resize=709%2C470 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?resize=1022%2C678 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?resize=1536%2C1019 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light explores railroad photography.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last month, Amtrak&#8217;s Pennsylvanian (New York-Philadelphia-Pittsburgh)  has regularly sported a GE P42 diesel in heritage paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42830,"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":[5028,7682,7476,6774,4423],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251012-Amtrak_P42_130_heritage_paint_Train_43_Shelley_Lane_Lancaster_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_4897.jpg?fit=2048%2C1359","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-b8J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825"}],"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=42825"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42858,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions\/42858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}