{"id":14276,"date":"2016-02-22T06:36:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T15:18:44","slug":"electric-freight-at-kalsa-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/electric-freight-at-kalsa-slovakia\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Freight at Kalsa, Slovakia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this May 2006 morning, Denis Mc Cabe and I focused on a westward freight led by a class 131 double-electric.<\/p>\n<p>This was working on the busy double-track standard gauge (4 feet 8.5 inches) mainline to Kosice. However, our primary interest was catching movements on the adjacent Russian-gauge iron-ore line (seen to the left of the double-track line).<\/p>\n<p>At that time ore-trains passed about every two hours.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14274\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/zsr_kalsa_slovakia-brian_solomon2016_575048\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14274\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/electric-freight-at-kalsa-slovakia\/zsr_kalsa_slovakia-brian_solomon2016_575048\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?fit=2462%2C1624\" data-orig-size=\"2462,1624\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;\\u00b0\\u00b0&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed on Fujichrome using a Contax G2 with 45mm Zeiss Planar. Scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan5000 and adjusted in Lightroom.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?fit=709%2C468\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?fit=474%2C313\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14274\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?resize=474%2C313\" alt=\"Exposed on Fujichrome using a Contax G2 with 45mm Zeiss Planar. Scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan5000 and adjusted in Lightroom.\" width=\"474\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?resize=709%2C468 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?resize=1022%2C674 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed on Fujichrome using a Contax G2 with 45mm Zeiss Planar. Scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan5000 and adjusted in Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was my second visit to eastern Slovakian hot-spot at Kalsa, and it was the third visit for Denis who located this place a few years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Our success in eastern Slovakia led us to travel to western Ukraine the following year, which proved to be an exceptionally rewarding photographic endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I\u2019ve made a project of scanning my Slovakian slides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this May 2006 morning, Denis Mc Cabe and I focused on a westward freight led by a class 131 double-electric. This was working on the busy double-track standard gauge (4 feet 8.5 inches) mainline to Kosice. However, our primary interest was catching movements on the adjacent Russian-gauge iron-ore line (seen to the left of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/electric-freight-at-kalsa-slovakia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electric Freight at Kalsa, Slovakia.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14274,"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":[4537,3363,1394,3367,7535,3364,3361,3362,3365,3366],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ZSR_Kalsa_Slovakia-Brian_Solomon\u00a92016_575048.jpg?fit=2462%2C1624","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276"}],"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=14276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14280,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions\/14280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}