{"id":44225,"date":"2026-05-10T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44225"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:54:38","slug":"corfu-new-york-19-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/corfu-new-york-19-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Corfu, New York\u201419 years ago."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On this day 157 years ago, a ceremonial golden spike marked the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this day 134 years ago,\u00a0as a well crafted publicity stunt, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad\u00a0No. 999 made its world-famous speed run leading the Empire State Express<\/em> toward Buffalo. On the long tangent near\u00a0Corfu, the engine was reported to have reached the preposterous speed of 112.5 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this day 19 years ago, I marked both events as part of my book,\u00a0The Railroad Never Sleeps, which involved 37 photographers across North America documenting a single day in railroading. At dawn, I exposed this view of the Water Level Route at Corfu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CSX’s former New York Central near Corfu, New York on May 10, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It seems like a world ago now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light explores railroad photography !<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day 134 years ago, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad\u00a0No. 999 made its world-famous speed run leading the Empire State Express toward Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44226,"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":[6289,8640,8641,5490],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Grade-Xing-Corfu-NY-10-May-2007-Brian-Solomon-204020-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1717","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bvj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225"}],"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=44225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44235,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225\/revisions\/44235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}