{"id":45344,"date":"2026-11-05T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=45344"},"modified":"2026-11-05T06:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:57:03","slug":"reading-northerns-250th-locomotive-and-caboose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northerns-250th-locomotive-and-caboose\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading & Northern’s 250th Locomotive and Caboose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few weeks ago, Kris and I made an afternoon visit to the Reading & Northern at Tamaqua, Pa., on our way to catch 4-8-4 steam locomotive 2102 on its return run from Jim Thorpe to Reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the locomotives at the north end of the yard was R&N SD40-2 1776 and a former Pennsylvania Railroad caboose, patriotically adorned for America’s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a lucky find, and I made a variety of photos of the colorful equipment before we continued toward Nesquehoning to intercept the famous 4-8-4 on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z6-III with 24-70mm Nikkor lens, f6.3 1\/80 sec, ISO 100.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6-III with 24-70mm Nikkor lens, f6.3 1\/800 sec, ISO 100.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

At Tamaqua, Pa., we found R&N SD40-2 1776 and a former Pennsylvania Railroad caboose, patriotically adorned for America’s 250th anniversary.<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[8829,8830,6621,6867,8828],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bNm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45344"}],"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=45344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45348,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45344\/revisions\/45348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}