{"id":19982,"date":"2017-12-11T05:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19982"},"modified":"2017-12-10T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:31:57","slug":"amtrak-163-at-providence-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-163-at-providence-rhode-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak 163 at Providence, Rhode Island."},"content":{"rendered":"

Amtrak \u2018Cities Sprinter\u2019 ACS-64 number 633 tows one of its sister electrics with train 163 as it arrives at Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, December 2, 2017.<\/p>\n

I exposed this view using my Lumix LX-7.<\/p>\n

Amtrak\u2019s line at Providence is charmless, but functional. Heavy electrification in an urban environment is rarely picturesque. To make a satisfactory image of a moving train takes patience, skill or both.<\/p>\n

This is a routine view of American passenger rails in action, nothing sexy, and nothing complicated or tricky photographically.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX-7 digital photo exposed at 12:19pm on December 2, 2017; ISO 80, f4.0 at 1\/400th of a second, handheld with adjustable camera zoom lens set to the functional equivalent of a 65mm focal lens on tradition 35mm film camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s a screen shot of the photo with a window showing the EXIF data stored with the digital file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Does my cross-lit midday view of a Siemens electric with 1970s-era Amfleet passenger cars work for you?<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts every day.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amtrak \u2018Cities Sprinter\u2019 ACS-64 number 633 tows one of its sister electrics with train 163 as it arrives at Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, December 2, 2017. I exposed this view using my Lumix LX-7. Amtrak\u2019s line at Providence is charmless, but functional. Heavy electrification in an urban environment is rarely picturesque. To make a … Continue reading Amtrak 163 at Providence, Rhode Island.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19983,"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":[3934,4467,2013,31,2007,234,3071],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-10-at-9.19.31-PM.jpg?fit=1788%2C1118","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982"}],"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=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19984,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions\/19984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}