{"id":1781,"date":"2010-06-09T23:31:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T03:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2010-06-09T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T03:31:54","slug":"monday-night-west-chester-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/monday-night-west-chester-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night &#8211; West Chester Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"West Chester 65T\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20100609\/thumb_20100607-01-420204365-_MG_4402.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>With some time to kill Monday night down in Collegeville, I did a bit of research on what was in the area railroad-wise. \u00a0I found an excursion line &#8211; the West Chester Railroad &#8211; about 30 minutes from the hotel. \u00a0I figured it was worth a ride down there to at least check it out &#8211; especially\u00a0considering\u00a0they have a couple nice looking ALCos on their roster &#8211; a RS-18 and C424. \u00a0So once I settled into the hotel and had dinner, I made my way south to West Chester, PA to check things out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I made my way to where the maps said the railroad was located, and I was greeted by a black GE 65 Ton centercab sitting adjacent to the parking area near the road. \u00a0So that was the first shot of the evening &#8211; done in ambient light.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:113683]\n<p>Next up, I found the C424 sporting what looked like some new paint. \u00a0So I got a couple shots &#8211; the first in ambient light, and the nose shot was done with the Lumedyne<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:113682] [cpg_imagefixthumb:113681]\n<p>And finally a shot of the RS-18 &#8211; this one was harder with the floodlights pointing into the lens, but I tried to take advantage of the lens flare from the light to the left of the frame, having it roughly parallel the long hood&#8217;s roof line.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:113680]\n<p>And that was it for the evening. \u00a0Not too many shots, but in my opinion well worth the trek. \u00a0Hey, it sure beats sitting in the hotel watching TV!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some time to kill Monday night down in Collegeville, I did a bit of research on what was in the area railroad-wise. \u00a0I found an excursion line &#8211; the West Chester Railroad &#8211; about 30 minutes from the hotel. \u00a0I figured it was worth a ride down there to at least check it out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[110,111,245,425,426,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-1781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-night-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-lumedyne","9":"tag-night","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-reading-railroad","12":"tag-west-chester","13":"tag-west-chester-railroad","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}