{"id":9198,"date":"2014-12-14T02:36:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T07:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2014-12-03T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T04:31:31","slug":"southern-pacific-weso-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/southern-pacific-weso-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Pacific Weso, Nevada."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Weso is a contraction implying \u2018Western Pacific Southern Pacific\u2019. This is the control point at the western end of the famed \u2018paired track\u2019 where SP\u2019s and WP\u2019s single track mainlines were coordinated during World War I to function as directional double track to ease operations.<\/p>\n

\"Weso,<\/a>
Weso, Nevada on July 21, 1991. Exposed on Kodachrome 25 using a Nikon F3T fitted with a f1.8 105mm Nikkon lens, mounted on a Bogen 3021 tripod.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My long-time photo pal TSH and I camped here in July 1991 and made a promising morning exposing Kodachrome of the parade of trains that passed after sunrise.<\/p>\n

This view is of an eastward SP Modoc Line freight on Union Pacific\u2019s former WP line just east of the crossovers at Weso, mile post 537. Weso is near Winnemucca. The parallel SP line is off camera to the left.<\/p>\n

Weso, Nevada on July 21, 1991. Exposed on Kodachrome 25 using a Nikon F3T fitted with a f1.8 105mm Nikkon lens, mounted on a Bogen 3021 tripod.<\/p>\n

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Tracking the Light Daily Post: Weso is a contraction implying \u2018Western Pacific Southern Pacific\u2019. This is the control point at the western end of the famed \u2018paired track\u2019 where SP\u2019s and WP\u2019s single track mainlines were coordinated during World War I to function as directional double track to ease operations. My long-time photo pal TSH … Continue reading Southern Pacific Weso, Nevada.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9196,"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":[4537,7535,1660,2465,42,2466,2464],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SP_Modoc_Train_Paired_track_at_Weso_NV_mp537_Jul21_1991_Brian_Solomon_235417.jpg?fit=800%2C531","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2om","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198"}],"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=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9200,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions\/9200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}