{"id":43651,"date":"2026-02-21T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43651"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:58:12","slug":"view-through-a-moving-window-bridgeport-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/view-through-a-moving-window-bridgeport-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"View Through a Moving Window\u2014Bridgeport\u20141980."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the summer of 1980, my brother and I were traveling by train from Rye, New York to Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were riding behind E60 957 in a Budd-built Amtrak Amfleet-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this view with my Leica 3A on Kodak Plus-X, as we came into the restrictive curve on approach to the station at Bridgeport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The E60s are long gone, as is Kodak Plus-X. But, I have the old Leica on my shelf as a display-piece, and the Amfleet-1 cars are still rolling\u2014yet replacements are on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light Gazes Back Through Time . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made this view with my Leica 3A on Kodak Plus-X, as we came into the restrictive curve on approach to the stationat Bridgeport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43655,"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":[7879,5028,5031,8529],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bridgeport-Conn_\u00a9Brian_Solomon22402-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1222","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bm3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43651"}],"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=43651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43687,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43651\/revisions\/43687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}