{"id":6911,"date":"2014-05-29T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2014-05-29T07:33:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:33:52","slug":"i-remember-norfolk-western-611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/i-remember-norfolk-western-611\/","title":{"rendered":"I remember Norfolk &#038; Western 611\u2014TRACKING THE LIGHT SPECIAL POST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Streamlined Steam at Spencer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost 20 years since John Gruber and I intercepted Norfolk &amp; Western 611 working west on the former Nickel Plate Road near Valpalraiso, Indiana. That was back in August 1994!<\/p>\n<p>I also visited 611 once in Roanoke about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here she is last night at Spencer Shops, North Carolina,\u00a0whereI opted for a moody backlit view.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6912\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/05\/29\/i-remember-norfolk-western-611\/611_backlit_vert_p1020889\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6912\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6912\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/i-remember-norfolk-western-611\/611_backlit_vert_p1020889\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?fit=800%2C1199\" data-orig-size=\"800,1199\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6170.6048503337&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;1.4429776067452&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"611_backlit_vert_P1020889\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;May 28, 2014; Norfolk &#038; Western 611. Exposed with a Lumix LX-7.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?fit=358%2C537\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?fit=474%2C711\" class=\"wp-image-6912 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?resize=474%2C710\" alt=\"May 28, 2014; Norfolk &amp; Western 611. Exposed with a Lumix LX-7.\" width=\"474\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?resize=100%2C150 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?resize=358%2C537 358w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?resize=483%2C724 483w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 28, 2014; Norfolk &amp; Western 611. 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It&#8217;s been almost 20 years since John Gruber and I intercepted Norfolk &amp; Western 611 working west on the former Nickel Plate Road near Valpalraiso, Indiana. That was back in August 1994! I also visited 611 once in Roanoke about 10 years ago. Here she is last night at Spencer Shops, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/i-remember-norfolk-western-611\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I remember Norfolk &#038; Western 611\u2014TRACKING THE LIGHT SPECIAL POST<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3786,2205,2203,2193,2204],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/611_backlit_vert_P1020889.jpg?fit=800%2C1199","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1Nt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911"}],"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=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions\/6919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}