{"id":43219,"date":"2025-12-26T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43219"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:11:14","slug":"seamus-at-christiana-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/seamus-at-christiana-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamus at Christiana on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back when Seamus was just a wee pup, Kris and I had brought him over to Christiana to roll by Amtrak’s Keystone<\/em>. I made a photo of him watching the train race past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seamus is now a full grown dog, so yesterday\u2014Christmas Day\u2014I thought it would be nice to make some follow-up photos from the same location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last year and half, Seamus has become in tune with passing trains and waited with Kris in expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much to our delight, Amtrak 670 blitzed by on schedule .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 2024; Kris and Seamus roll by Amtrak at Christiana, Pa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seamus was just a wee pup back then.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fast forward to Christmas Day 2025; Kris points out Amtrak 670 approaching Christiana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And there it goes. ‘Hey Seamus, did you catch the number of the engine?’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

Much to our delight, Amtrak 670 blitzed by on schedule .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43223,"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":[10],"tags":[7410,8287],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251225-Kris__Seamus_w_Amtrak_Keystone_670_Christiana_PA_DSC_5584.jpg?fit=2048%2C1486","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bf5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219"}],"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=43219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43227,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219\/revisions\/43227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}