{"id":21381,"date":"2018-06-13T07:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21381"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:19:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T22:19:36","slug":"marklins-mickey-mouse-at-koln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/marklins-mickey-mouse-at-koln\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e4rklin\u2019s Mickey Mouse at K\u00f6ln!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a lucky shot. I was changing trains at the K\u00f6ln Hauptbahnhof in 1999, when I made this photo from the platforms at the east side of the station.<\/p>\n

A DB Class 120 electric had been specially painted by or for M\u00e4rklin model trains to commemorate the 70th<\/sup>anniversary of Disney\u2019s Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t expecting this locomotive, but as it went by I made a few choice photographs on Fujichrome Sensia using my Nikon N90S and a 105mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the great things about exploring German railways is a tremendous variety of trains complete with unexpected surprises in the form of specially painted locomotives, antiques on the roll, and special trains.<\/p>\n

Germany is one of my favorite countries to visit and among the places profiled in my new book: Brian Solomon\u2019s Railway Guide to Europe<\/a>, now available from the Kalmbach Hobby Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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

It was a lucky shot. I was changing trains at the K\u00f6ln Hauptbahnhof in 1999, when I made this photo from the platforms at the east side of the station. A DB Class 120 electric had been specially painted by or for M\u00e4rklin model trains to commemorate the 70thanniversary of Disney\u2019s Mickey Mouse. One of … Continue reading M\u00e4rklin\u2019s Mickey Mouse at K\u00f6ln!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4750,4748,4749,4712,4537,1201,94,2924],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5yR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381"}],"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=21381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21384,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions\/21384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}