{"id":11946,"date":"2015-07-27T01:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T05:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2015-07-29T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:48:11","slug":"railway-ruins-in-the-forest-evidence-of-another-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/railway-ruins-in-the-forest-evidence-of-another-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Ruins in the Forest\u2014Evidence of another Era."},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt like a Victorian explorer being led through forests by expert guides. Petri and Pietu Tuovinen, and Markku Pulkinen led me a long a disused track.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a locomotive turntable here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed! Masked by trees, hidden from view, and located off the end of a lightly used branch line at Ammansaari, Finland is the old turntable once used to spin light steam locomotives.<\/p>\n

Few visitors are afforded the privilege of seeing this relic. It was like finding a Mayan pyramid in the rain forest.<\/p>\n

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I exposed these photos digitally using my FujiFilm X-T1. For effect, I set the camera to the preset that emulates black & white film with a red filter. For posterity, I also exposed a few color slides.<\/p>\n

My old Contax with real black & white film would have served me well here.<\/p>\n

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I felt like a Victorian explorer being led through forests by expert guides. Petri and Pietu Tuovinen, and Markku Pulkinen led me a long a disused track. \u201cThere is a locomotive turntable here.\u201d Indeed! Masked by trees, hidden from view, and located off the end of a lightly used branch line at Ammansaari, Finland is … Continue reading Railway Ruins in the Forest\u2014Evidence of another Era.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11943,"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":[3786,4537,2430,7535,1156,2854,2853],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/VR_old_turntable_Ammansaari_DSCF2869MOD1.jpg?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-36G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946"}],"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=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}