{"id":17174,"date":"2016-10-30T05:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17174"},"modified":"2016-10-29T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T16:40:14","slug":"an-hour-and-a-half-at-the-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/an-hour-and-a-half-at-the-station\/","title":{"rendered":"An\u00a0hour and a half at the Station."},"content":{"rendered":"

Often when I seek places to photograph, variety is a goal. In other words, I\u2019m not just looking for a steady parade, but also lots of different kinds of trains.<\/p>\n

Railways in Czech Republic offer great variety. One of my favorite lines is the route that connects D\u011b\u010d\u00edn (in the northern part of the country near the German frontier) with Kolin (an important junction 60 kilometers east of Prague).<\/p>\n

This secondary route bypasses the Czech capital and serves as a reasonably busy freight corridor. I\u2019d photographed this line at various locations in 2009 using color slide film<\/p>\n

On 14 October 2016, Denis McCabe and I re-visited the line and spent an hour and half at the rural station in Star\u00e1 Boleslav, located in the Labe River Vallay across from Brandys nab Labem.<\/p>\n

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The building was a tired but classic structure with lots of character. In addition to mainline action we were entertained by a man unloading some coal wagons for local delivery.<\/p>\n

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We arrived by local passenger train and departed with the next scheduled eastward local.<\/p>\n

Below is a selection of images I exposed digitally with my FujiFilm X-T1 and processed with Lightroom to improve contrast, color balance and color saturation.<\/p>\n

\"4:05
At 4:05 pm a westward local paused for a station stop with a specially painted electric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"4:06pm.
4:06pm. Carloads of coal were being unloaded for local delivery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"4:16
4:16 pm. A westward CD Cargo coal train glides through.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"4:20pm.
4:20pm. The coal train was immediately followed by this IDS Cargo tank train with an ancient but colorfully painted electric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"At
At 4:24 pm, on the heals of the tank train was this CD Cargo train of new automobiles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"4:32pm
4:32pm another westward local passenger train makes its stop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Czech
Czech Railways use a blue light for ‘stop’ on their shunting signals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"5:01
5:01 pm, a diesel powered maintenance train rattles by eastbound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"5:14pm
5:14pm an electric in one of the older CD liveries leads a coal train eastbound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"5:34pm,
5:34pm, our local train approaches as the station master looks on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Often when I seek places to photograph, variety is a goal. In other words, I\u2019m not just looking for a steady parade, but also lots of different kinds of trains. Railways in Czech Republic offer great variety. One of my favorite lines is the route that connects D\u011b\u010d\u00edn (in the northern part of the country … Continue reading An\u00a0hour and a half at the Station.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17165,"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":[3895,3896,137,1289,401],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/514pm-coal_train_Stara_Boleslav_DSCF6418.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4t0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174"}],"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=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17176,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions\/17176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}