{"id":43782,"date":"2026-03-13T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43782"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:51:02","slug":"glint-at-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/glint-at-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Glint at Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Years ago, my late friend and fellow photographer Brian Jennison described this effect as ‘around the corner light’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stood in the shadows under a tree at Gap, Pennsylvania looking west. The sun was setting in the tangent between Gap’s two restrictive curves. I centered Amtrak Keystone<\/em> 656, led by ACS-64 no. 600 David L. Gunn<\/em>, as it leaned into the near curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn’t know what it’s all about, but Seamus-the-Dog was sitting the back seat of the car to watch the train roll by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed using a Nikon Z7-II with 70-200mm Z-series Nikkor zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Greatly enlarged portion of the lower image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Examines Railroad Photography Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He doesn’t know what it’s all about, but Seamus-the-Dog was sitting the back seat of the car to watch the train roll by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43784,"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":[5028,8559,5073],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Amtrak_Keystone_656_w_ACS64_600_at_Gap_DSC_7061.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-boa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43782"}],"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=43782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43788,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43782\/revisions\/43788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}