{"id":12659,"date":"2015-10-02T01:55:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:36:31","slug":"a-visit-to-the-european-railway-agency-october-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-visit-to-the-european-railway-agency-october-1-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the European Railway Agency\u2014October 1, 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I traveled by SNCB (Belgian Railways) train from La Hulpe in suburban Brussels to Mons near the French frontier where I was collected by\u00a0Mauno Pajunen. We drove to the European Railway Agency’s HQ at Valenciennes where I presented my illustrated talk on railway photography.<\/p>\n

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I made a few final adjustments to my program in Power Point while traveling on the train to Mons. Lumix LX7 photo (Photo on the computer is an image of the Southern Pacific on Donner Pass exposed with my old Leica M2).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ERA’s offices at Valenciennes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here I am at the ERA in Valenciennes, France.\u00a0Photo by Mauno Pajunen with my Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had an enthusiastic and receptive audience. In addition to displaying about 90 images from my lap top using a digital projection system, I showed off the demonstration copy of my new book Railway Depots, Stations and Terminals and explained the virtues of my three\u00a0primary cameras.<\/p>\n

My\u00a0audience had some excellent questions, which I did my best to answer.<\/p>\n

It was a bright clear afternoon, and after the talk my host\u00a0\u00a0Mauno Pajunen gave me a tour of railways in Valenciennes.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I traveled by SNCB (Belgian Railways) train from La Hulpe in suburban Brussels to Mons near the French frontier where I was collected by\u00a0Mauno Pajunen. We drove to the European Railway Agency’s HQ at Valenciennes where I presented my illustrated talk on railway photography. I had an enthusiastic and receptive audience. In addition to … Continue reading A Visit to the European Railway Agency\u2014October 1, 2015.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12657,"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":[2985,2980,580,2981],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ERA_sign_at_HQ_Valenciennes_P1320711.jpg?fit=2736%2C3648","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659"}],"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=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12674,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions\/12674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}