{"id":21267,"date":"2018-05-29T07:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21267"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:12:55","slug":"kimball-south-dakota-on-this-day-in-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/kimball-south-dakota-on-this-day-in-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimball, South Dakota on this Day in 1995."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this day, May 29, 1995, that Tom Danneman and I chased a Dakota Southern freight on a former Milwaukee Road line across the rolling South Dakota prairie.<\/p>\n<p>Track conditions didn\u2019t allow for train speeds greater than about 5 to 10 mph, so we were able to make several sets of images over a relatively short period of time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21268\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/kimball-south-dakota-on-this-day-in-1995\/dakota_southern_on_former_milw_rd_near_kimball_sd_may291995_km_200mmbrian_solomon_610249\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?fit=1725%2C1159\" data-orig-size=\"1725,1159\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1527150543&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&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=\"Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?fit=709%2C476\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?fit=474%2C319\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21268\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?resize=474%2C318\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?w=1725 1725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?resize=205%2C138 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?resize=709%2C476 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?resize=1022%2C687 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made this view at dusk with a Nikon and 200mm lens while standing at grade crossing near Kimball. I like the way the electrical polls and wires frame the tracks and train.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this day, May 29, 1995, that Tom Danneman and I chased a Dakota Southern freight on a former Milwaukee Road line across the rolling South Dakota prairie. Track conditions didn\u2019t allow for train speeds greater than about 5 to 10 mph, so we were able to make several sets of images over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/kimball-south-dakota-on-this-day-in-1995\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kimball, South Dakota on this Day in 1995.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21268,"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":[4705,4706,4707,273],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dakota_Southern_on_former_Milw_Rd_near_Kimball_SD_May291995_KM_200MM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610249.jpg?fit=1725%2C1159","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5x1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21267"}],"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=21267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21269,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21267\/revisions\/21269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}