{"id":7197,"date":"2014-06-21T03:27:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T07:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2014-06-21T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T13:18:06","slug":"amtrak-fl9-on-the-water-level-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-fl9-on-the-water-level-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak FL9 on the Water Level Route"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 1989.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Exposed with a Leica M2 on Kodachrome 25.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A hot and hazy late summer evening, and Amtrak 48 the Lake Shore Limited<\/em> was running late.<\/p>\n

In the lead was FL9 489. I exposed this cross-lit Kodachrome slide to show the train with the Hudson in the background.<\/p>\n

This, after all, is the former New York Central \u2018Water Level Route\u2019. It was here that the famed 20th<\/sup> Century Limited rolled up the miles between Chicago and Grand Central Terminal behind J3A Hudsons, S1 Niagaras, and Electro-Motive E-units in lightning stripe paint.<\/p>\n

All before my time.<\/p>\n

I was just happy to catch an Amtrak FL9 roaring along in the late light.<\/p>\n

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