{"id":12186,"date":"2015-08-18T02:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2015-12-03T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T22:32:20","slug":"soviet-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/soviet-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted a few photos of the Helsinki-Moscow sleeper Leo Tolstoi, <\/em>which reminded me of some photos I made on a visit to Tallinn, Estonia back in 2002.<\/p>\n

At the time, second-hand General Electric C30-7As and C36-7s were being delivered from the USA to supplant Soviet Era M62 diesels.<\/p>\n

I thought the old Soviet machines were pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Exposed on Fujichrome slide film using a Contax G2 rangefinder.<\/p>\n

\"Builders<\/a>
Builders plate on a M62 diesel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Why<\/a>
Why do I keep thinking Timken’s Four Aces? EVR’s Soviet-era M62 1111 poses for a portrait at Tallinn, Estonia in July 2002.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday I posted a few photos of the Helsinki-Moscow sleeper Leo Tolstoi, which reminded me of some photos I made on a visit to Tallinn, Estonia back in 2002. At the time, second-hand General Electric C30-7As and C36-7s were being delivered from the USA to supplant Soviet Era M62 diesels. I thought the old Soviet … Continue reading Soviet Flashback<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12183,"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":[2895,2892,2894,1775,2893],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CCCP-builders-plate-on-EVR-M62-by-Brian-Solomon-225070.jpg?fit=6600%2C4371","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186"}],"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=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13339,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions\/13339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}