{"id":44507,"date":"2026-06-22T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44507"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:01:47","slug":"ns-stack-train-one-train-two-cameras-two-focal-lengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ns-stack-train-one-train-two-cameras-two-focal-lengths\/","title":{"rendered":"NS-Stack Train\u2014One Train; Two Cameras; Two Focal Lengths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why settle for one view, if you can make two?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under a bright midday June sky, Kris and I were exploring Norfolk Southern\u2019s Pittsburgh Line west of Enola. I made this pair of photos from rural grade crossing of an eastward double stack freight on the roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the lead was NS ES44DC 7501. While a common looking locomotive, this is no spring chicken. It was among the early GE-Evolution Series diesels, and built at Erie back in early 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top photo was exposed using my Nikon Z7-II with a 70-200mm lens set at 200mm; the bottom image was made a few seconds later with my Z6 with a 24-70mm set at 32mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m undecided as to which image I prefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

While a common looking locomotive, this is no spring chicken. It was among the early GE-Evolution Series diesels<\/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":[8679,8680,6310,5383,5131],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bzR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44507"}],"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=44507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44511,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44507\/revisions\/44511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}