{"id":45349,"date":"2026-11-06T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=45349"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:49:40","slug":"reading-northern-2102-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northern-2102-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading & Northern 2102 on the Move!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I hadn’t planned to make this panned sequence of former Reading Company 4-8-4 2102 as it charged west of Nesquehoning, Pa., near Lake Haut on the former Central Railroad of New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had envisioned a less dynamic, straightforward view of the locomotive\u2014frozen in motion\u2014with its rods down. But then, at the last second, some oaf stood in front of me, forcing me to improvise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such are the challenges of photographing popular steam locomotives on the move!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I had envisioned a less dynamic straight forward view of the locomotive\u2014frozen in motion\u2014with its rods down. <\/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":[10],"tags":[7577,8831,6621,6616,5295],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bNr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45349"}],"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=45349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45356,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45349\/revisions\/45356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}