{"id":43272,"date":"2026-01-04T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43272"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:44:50","slug":"live-rail-at-manheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/live-rail-at-manheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Rail at Manheim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As 2025 was nearing its end, I had a couple hours in the afternoon where the sun graced the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With hopes of finding Norfolk Southern’s H23 local on the Lititz Secondary, I drove to the branch’s modern-day namesake, only to find that the train had gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the line of the old Reading & Columbia, I overtook the slowly moving freight near Manheim, and drove to intercept it passing the former Reading Company station, now preserved by the local historical society. Among other things, they display a PRR position light signal and a former New York Central System boxcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrived in just enough time to expose these images using my Nikon Z6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chase was on! More fodder for the recasting of the Wee Reading Company, or just photos of a passing freight? It is too soon to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

More fodder for the recasting of the Wee Reading Company, or just photos of a passing freight? It is too soon to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43275,"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":[7779,5383,8086],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NS_H23_local_at_Manheim_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_5604-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C928","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bfW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272"}],"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=43272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43276,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272\/revisions\/43276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}