{"id":43794,"date":"2026-04-03T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43794"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:55:57","slug":"gp40s-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/gp40s-in-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"GP40s in the Lead!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 30, 1987 was a good day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve previously posted to Tracking the Light some of my favorite photos exposed on this day on the former Pennsylvania Railroad at Bennington Curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this view, exposed in the early morning light, a set of GP40s lead an uphill train. The roar of the 16-645E3 diesels was intense and it made for memorable drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrail was really busy railroad in those days. In addition to parades of eastbound and westbound freights, there were light helper moves and a few Amtrak trains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1987 my choice film was Kodak T-Max 400, then a relative new emulsion. After more a year of work with T-max, I returned to using older emulsions such as Kodak Tri-X, which I felt produced better results<\/em>. However, modern scanning techniques have allowed for pleasing interpretations of this almost 40 year-old negative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light looks back on Conrail!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exposed in the early morning light, a set of GP40s lead an uphill train. The roar of the 16-645E3 diesels was intense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43795,"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":[8561,5128,6479,5073,5149],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GP40_Bennington_Curve_\u00a9Brian_Solomon22343.jpg?fit=2048%2C1466","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bom","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794"}],"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=43794"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43933,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794\/revisions\/43933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}