{"id":7164,"date":"2014-06-10T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2014-06-10T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:40:08","slug":"nickel-plate-road-alco-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/nickel-plate-road-alco-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel Plate Road Alco PA."},"content":{"rendered":"

An Impostor, but still nice to see.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ok, so this Alco PA was delivered new to the Santa Fe, and in later years worked for Delaware & Hudson, and then for Mexican railways. But now it wears a fresh coat of Nickel Plate Road paint.<\/p>\n

Until Streamliners at Spencer, I\u2019d never had the opportunity to photograph an Alco PA, a locomotive often cited as one of the most loved and most attractive (if not the most reliable) of the steam to diesel transition era.<\/p>\n

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The Nickel Plate Road merged into Norfolk & Western two years before I was born, so while I\u2019ve photographed trains on the old Nickel Plate route, I never knew the railway either.<\/p>\n

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So there you go. It\u2019s like meeting a ghost. Or, perhaps, seeing a James Joyce impersonator. Or, going to listen to a Led Zeppelin tribute-band.<\/p>\n

When it comes to a Nickel Plate Road PA, I never experienced the real thing, and I never will. I never saw an Erie Triplex either.<\/p>\n

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