{"id":44121,"date":"2026-04-27T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44121"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:41:38","slug":"icon-of-railroading-the-hotel-roanoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/icon-of-railroading-the-hotel-roanoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Icon of Railroading: the Hotel Roanoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not all railroad buildings feature trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, courtesy of my old pal TSH, Kris and I visited the iconic Hotel Roanoke for lunch. I had the Reuben.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majestic Tudor-style hotel is a relic of railroading\u2019s golden age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roanoke was at the very heart of the Norfolk & Western, and for many years this grand hotel was owned and operated by the railroad. It is conveniently situated just a short walk from the former N&W station\u2014now the O. Winston Link Museum (featured in my earlier post).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father stayed here on one of his visits to Roanoke in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, while trains still pass along the main line just a short distance from the grand structure, the Hotel Roanoke is no longer owned or operated by the railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photosexposed with my Nikon Z6 III with 24-70mm Nikkor lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Roanoke was at the very heart of the Norfolk & Western, and for many years this grand hotel was owned and operated by the railroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44131,"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":[8626,6819,8625,8627],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hotel_Roanoke_DSC_1288-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-btD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121"}],"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=44121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44133,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121\/revisions\/44133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}