{"id":43534,"date":"2026-02-07T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43534"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:29:45","slug":"norfolk-southern-38v-at-washington-boro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/norfolk-southern-38v-at-washington-boro\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern 38V at Washington Boro."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The thrill of the unknown is part of of the experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spotted the signal at Washington Boro, Pa., displaying ‘Approach Medium’ (Yellow over Green), so I knew an eastward train was lined up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 7:20pm, I began to hear a distant rumble of a loaded train rolling down the Susquehanna Valley. The sound ebbed and flowed and thirty-five minutes later the headlights came into view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single GE Evolution-series diesel-electric was leading symbol freight 38V consisting of a trainload of new tractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this series of photos using my Nikon Z6-III with f1.4 50mm lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The files were converted to DNG format with PureRaw, which also minimized noise, improved contrast and eliminated some lens imperfections. For final presentation, I cleaned up color casts and adjusted contrast in Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The thrill of the unknown is part of of the experience. I spotted the signal at Washington Boro, Pa., displaying ‘Approach Medium’ (Yellow over Green), so I knew an eastward train was lined up. At 7:20pm, I began to hear a distant rumble of a loaded train rolling down the Susquehanna Valley. The sound ebbed … Continue reading Norfolk Southern 38V at Washington Boro.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43537,"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":[5383,7625],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260205-NS_38V_at_Washingtonboro_PA_Port_Road_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0872.jpg?fit=2048%2C1267","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43534"}],"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=43534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43543,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43534\/revisions\/43543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}