{"id":16657,"date":"2016-09-12T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16657"},"modified":"2016-09-09T06:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:26:46","slug":"long-island-rail-road-interlude-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/long-island-rail-road-interlude-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Rail Road Interlude\u2014July 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

In July, I spent a few minutes on the Long Island Rail Road platforms at Woodside in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n

LIRR\u2019s busy multiple-track third-rail route from Penn-Station to Jamaica, New York is one of the few places in North America where you can experience train-frequency on par with busy European mainlines.<\/p>\n

In the course of only a few minutes I saw a half dozen trains.<\/p>\n

These are a sample of the photos I exposed with my Lumix LX7.<\/p>\n

\"My
My compact Panasonic Lumix LX7 is ideal for urban railway photography.\u00a0This camera compact, lightweight and unobtrusive, while it uses a Leica optical system that yields excellent images. I have mine set up to expose both RAW and JPG files simultaneously.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Trailing
Trailing view of an outbound train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One
One of LIRR’s older Metropolitan-series trains is heading toward Penn-Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"It
It was nice to catch the older cars on the move.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I
I made this view from the concourse of the Flushing Line station (operated by the NYCTA). Woodside offers a convenient connection between LIRR and NYCTA trains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In July, I spent a few minutes on the Long Island Rail Road platforms at Woodside in Queens, New York. LIRR\u2019s busy multiple-track third-rail route from Penn-Station to Jamaica, New York is one of the few places in North America where you can experience train-frequency on par with busy European mainlines. In the course of … Continue reading Long Island Rail Road Interlude\u2014July 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16652,"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":[2071,2069,2326,219,218,3798],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LIRR-Woodside_P1490920.jpg?fit=2448%2C1634","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4kF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657"}],"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=16657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions\/16658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}