{"id":4979,"date":"2014-01-07T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:27:24","slug":"daily-post-holiday-in-hollidaysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-holiday-in-hollidaysburg\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Holiday in Hollidaysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering \u00a0a Warm Summer Afternoon.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s get an ice cream,\u201d\u00a0 my pal T.S.H. said as we drove by Conrail\u2019s sprawling former Pennsylvania Railroad yards at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Conrail,<\/a>
Conrail, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania 6:30 pm on July 27, 1987. Exposed on Kodachrome<\/a> 25 with a Leica M2 fitted with 50mm f2.0 Summicron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a roadside ice cream stand on one side of the highway and the tracks on the other. I made this image showing Conrail SD40 6288,\u00a0while enjoying the ice cream on the hood of the old Dodge Dart we were using as transport.<\/p>\n

This engine had been painted with a\u00a0 slogan promoting the United Way. Second out was a former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2. This was a local that had come down from Altoona with bad-order cars for the car shops.<\/p>\n

It was July 27, 1987 and we were on the tail end of a week-long exploration of Pennsylvania. The days had been hot and hazy, but evenings offered some rosy light, (when there wasn\u2019t a thunderstorm). We had started the day on the old Baltimore & Ohio, working our way from Confluence to Sand Patch, then drove north to Hollidaysburg.<\/p>\n

The ice cream is just a memory, but I still have the old chromes.<\/p>\n

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