{"id":44415,"date":"2026-06-09T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44415"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:14:15","slug":"erie-railroad-station-november-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/erie-railroad-station-november-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Railroad Station\u2014November 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning in 1986, I made a project of photographing vestiges of the former Erie Railroad. While this often included Conrail freights and antique signal installations, I also focused on the railroad\u2019s architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my knowledge, I made just one photo of this former Erie Railroad passenger station, exposed on Kodachrome 25 in November 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you guess the location? Thankfully, I wrote it on the slide mount. I\u2019ve seen relatively few photos of this station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"325\" data-attachment-id=\"44416\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/erie-railroad-station-november-1987\/erie_rr_station_nov1987_briansolomon_268637\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?fit=2048%2C1405\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1405\" 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;1434896622&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=\"Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?fit=709%2C486\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?fit=474%2C325\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?resize=474%2C325&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?resize=709%2C486 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?resize=1022%2C701 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?resize=205%2C141 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?resize=1536%2C1054 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erie_RR_Station_Nov1987_\u00a9BrianSolomon_268637.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This would have been a neat place during Erie Railroad times. Here&#8217;s a hint; the clock stopped, but time has not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracking the Light Explores Railway Photography!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you guess the location? <\/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":[5164,5186,8669],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-byn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44415"}],"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=44415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44417,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44415\/revisions\/44417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}