{"id":21321,"date":"2018-06-04T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21321"},"modified":"2018-06-03T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:06:41","slug":"europes-most-photogenic-urban-railway-five-photos-lisbon-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/europes-most-photogenic-urban-railway-five-photos-lisbon-trams\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe’s Most Photogenic Urban Railway? Five Photos\u2014Lisbon Trams."},"content":{"rendered":"

As far as transit is concerned, Lisbon is the San Francisco of Europe.<\/p>\n

Ok, you can nitpick about the methods of propulsion, cables versus juice, but with steep hills, outstanding urban panoramas and quirky twisting trackage in narrow streets and fully functional antique cars, Lisbon\u2019s tram system has lots in common with San Francisco\u2019s famous cable cars.<\/p>\n

These cities have lots of parallels too, certainly in layout and appearance, and weather.<\/p>\n

I made these photos in the Portuguese capital on a brilliant day in April.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s seemingly endless opportunity for photographs. But do you work with the shadows or in the shadows?<\/p>\n

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Canon EOS 7D digital photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View from a Portuguese restaurant. Canon EOS 7D digital photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the tourist, Lisbon\u2019s trams are both transport and an attraction.<\/p>\n

Lisbon is among the cities featured in my new book, Brian Solomon\u2019s Railway Guide to Europe<\/a>\u00a0 available now from the Kalmbach Hobby Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/kalmbachhobbystore.com\/product\/book\/01304<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also get my book on Amazon<\/a>. If you like what you see, please give me a good review! Thanks!<\/p>\n

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Red trams make a special circuit for visitors. Canon EOS 7D digital photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Canon EOS 7D digital photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As far as transit is concerned, Lisbon is the San Francisco of Europe. Ok, you can nitpick about the methods of propulsion, cables versus juice, but with steep hills, outstanding urban panoramas and quirky twisting trackage in narrow streets and fully functional antique cars, Lisbon\u2019s tram system has lots in common with San Francisco\u2019s famous … Continue reading Europe’s Most Photogenic Urban Railway? Five Photos\u2014Lisbon Trams.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21322,"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":[4715,4714,4713,4594,1201,2131,2113,1121],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4216.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5xT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321"}],"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=21321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21328,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321\/revisions\/21328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}