{"id":43704,"date":"2026-02-28T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43704"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:26:28","slug":"did-you-guess-correctly-mystery-railroad-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/did-you-guess-correctly-mystery-railroad-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Guess Correctly?\u2014Mystery Railroad Revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As follow-up to my posts last Monday and Thursday, I&#8217;ve posted a photo that reveals the identity of my mystery railroad. (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/second-clue\/\">https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/second-clue\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo was exposed at Belfast, Maine on a warm morning in August 1980. It was the beginning of a memorable railroad journey with my father over the length of an iconic New England short line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"288\" data-attachment-id=\"43705\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/did-you-guess-correctly-mystery-railroad-revealed\/brian_solomon_578768\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?fit=2048%2C1244\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1244\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1481195282&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?fit=709%2C431\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?fit=474%2C288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?resize=474%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?resize=709%2C431 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?resize=1022%2C621 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?resize=205%2C125 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?resize=1536%2C933 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578768.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to everyone who guessed correctly! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Explores Photography Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As follow-up to my posts last Monday and Thursday, I&#8217;ve posted a photo that reveals the identity of my mystery railroad. (see: https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/second-clue\/) This photo was exposed at Belfast, Maine on a warm morning in August 1980. It was the beginning of a memorable railroad journey with my father over the length of an iconic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/did-you-guess-correctly-mystery-railroad-revealed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did you Guess Correctly?\u2014Mystery Railroad Revealed!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[8542,6517,3827],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bmU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43704"}],"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=43704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43706,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43704\/revisions\/43706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}