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Searching through my slides sometimes yields unexpected images. While looking for views of historic Baltimore & Ohio equipment, I searched one of my Logan storage boxes from the 1990s labeled “Museums.” I’d used this title as a loose category for photos of historic railroad equipment, heritage railways, and tourist train operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 1999, I traveled aboard Conway Scenic’s Notch Train while working on contract for the Washington-based tour company Great Train Escapes. On one of many similar journeys over the old Maine Central Mountain Division during a two-year period, I made this Fujichrome photograph from the open car Silver Cascade<\/em> as the train crossed Frankenstein Bridge on its ascent through New Hampshire’s Crawford Notch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never would have imagined that twenty years later I’d begin my role as Conway Scenic’s Marketing Manager, nor would I have believed that the railroad’s attractively painted FP9s would eventually become the property of CSX after serving as Pan Am Railways’ executive locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I made this photo on Fujichrome from open car Silver Cascade as the train crossed Frankenstein Bridge on its ascent of New Hampshire\u2019s Crawford Notch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44673,"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":[5753,5955],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Conway_Scenic_Railroad_Frankenstein_trestle_NH_Oct1999\u00a9Brian_Solomon_210956-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1265","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bCu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44670"}],"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=44670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44672,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44670\/revisions\/44672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}