{"id":42996,"date":"2025-12-04T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42996"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:20:41","slug":"norfolk-southern-on-a-rainy-evening-at-leola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/norfolk-southern-on-a-rainy-evening-at-leola\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern on a Rainy Evening at Leola."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I like to keep a camera handy for those fortuitous moments when a train presents a photo opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One evening after work , Kris and I were driving toward Leola on a errand. I spied a headlight on Norfolk Southern’s New Holland Secondary as we crossed Horseshoe Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continued to drive and when we approached the small yard near the old PRR station, Norfolk Southern’s local freight was just about ready to begin its westward run back to Lewis Yard in Lancaster, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This will just take a minute,” I said as I pulled in the clear\u2014off the road. I reached for my Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm lens, and exposed a series of photos as the local began to pull west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sky was leaden and the ground was wet; back in Kodachrome days this lighting situation might have been unworkable, but applying modern digital technology I was satisfied with my results. I converted the Nikon NEF files into DNG format using DxO PureRaw, then made changes to contrast and exposure in Lightroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not bad for a freebie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light explores railroad photography!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we approached the small yard near the old PRR station, Norfolk Southern’s local freight was just about ready to begin its westward run back to Lewis Yard in Lancaster, Pa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43001,"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":[7657,7656,5383,8446],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251013-NS_5662_w_H28_Leola_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomonDSC_4929.jpg?fit=2048%2C1329","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bbu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996"}],"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=42996"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43021,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions\/43021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}