{"id":44371,"date":"2026-06-02T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44371"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:30:05","slug":"too-much-corn-too-little-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/too-much-corn-too-little-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Corn, Too Little Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seemed like a great idea for a textured composition: wavy rows of corn illuminated by the late afternoon sun. I set up my Nikon Z6 with a 24\u201370mm lens on a tripod and framed the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strasburg Rail Road’s 4 p.m. train was returning from Leaman Place, working up the short grade from Cherry Hill toward Esbenshade Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes the engine crew makes a bit of smoke while climbing the grade. Not today, though. The engineer kept a clean stack\u2014great for efficiency, but I was hoping for a little smoke to help tie the scene together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the train is almost lost amid the waves of corn and scruffy trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice try; no prize…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I had a second camera fitted with a long telephoto lens…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Critically Examines Railroad Photography!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The engineer kept a clean stack\u2014great for efficiency, but I was hoping for a little smoke to help tie the scene together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5131,4747,5727,7122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Strasburg_No90_w_Corn_Esbenshade_Road_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_6268-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bxF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44374,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44371\/revisions\/44374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}