{"id":15002,"date":"2016-04-19T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T09:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:04:58","slug":"the-magnificent-double-helix-at-biaschina-switzerland-16-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-magnificent-double-helix-at-biaschina-switzerland-16-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magnificent Double Helix at Biaschina, Switzerland; 16 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does the mist and rain add a sense of mystique to one of the great railway wonders of the world?<\/p>\n

At Biaschina, SBB’s route on the south slope of the Gottard Pass navigates a complete double spiral (or double helix).<\/p>\n

The line passes through several tunnels and appears the viewer on three distinct levels, each hundreds of feet above each other.<\/p>\n

I made these images from the Ticino riverbed using my Lumix LX7 on Saturday 16 April 2016.<\/p>\n

Denis McCabe, Gerry Conmy, Stephen Hirsch and I were visiting the line to make photographs before the new base tunnel diverts traffic at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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A southward passenger train on the top level of Biaschina loops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A few minutes later the same train appears on the middle level. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Finally, with little warning, the train emerges from the tunnel on the lowest level of the Double Helix. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Does the mist and rain add a sense of mystique to one of the great railway wonders of the world? At Biaschina, SBB’s route on the south slope of the Gottard Pass navigates a complete double spiral (or double helix). The line passes through several tunnels and appears the viewer on three distinct levels, each … Continue reading The Magnificent Double Helix at Biaschina, Switzerland; 16 April 2016<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,48],"tags":[3487,3486,7535,3488,2167,3489,2166],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3TY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002"}],"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=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}