{"id":43498,"date":"2026-02-06T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43498"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:53:57","slug":"snow-alcos-and-position-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/snow-alcos-and-position-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow, Alcos and Position Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sixteen years ago, photographers Pat Yough, Chris Guss and I spent the afternoon following Western New York & Pennsyvania’s Driftwood Turn on the former Pennsylvania Railroad line over Keating Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the return run from North Driftwood, Pa., I made this long telephoto view of the Alco-MLW powered freight passing PRR position light signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time I was working with a Canon EOS-3 fitted with a 100-400mm Canon zoom and loaded with Fujichrome Provia 100F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Driftwood Turn on February 6, 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

On February 6, 2010, I made this long telephoto view of the Alco-MLW powered Drfitwood Turn passing PRR position light signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43501,"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":[8516,6922],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNYPA_Driftwood_Turn_on_former-PRR_west_of_North_Driftwood_PA_6Feb2010_\u00a9Brian_Solomon210592-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1539","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bjA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43498"}],"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=43498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43503,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43498\/revisions\/43503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}