{"id":21929,"date":"2018-08-19T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21929"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:40:40","slug":"first-encounter-amtrak-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/first-encounter-amtrak-charger\/","title":{"rendered":"First Encounter: Amtrak Charger."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was curious to experience one of these new locomotives.<\/p>\n

The Siemens-built Charger is powered by a Cummins diesel and has a European appearance.<\/p>\n

Among their Amtrak assignments is the Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha\u00a0<\/em>corridor.<\/p>\n

I waited on the platform at the new Sturtevant, Wisconsin station. The eerie blue glow of the locomotive\u2019s LED headlights could be seen reflecting off the rails long before the train arrived at the station.<\/p>\n

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Working with my FujiFilm XT1 fitted with a Zeiss 12mm Touit, I set the ISO to 6400 and panned the train arriving at 1\/30th<\/sup>of a second at f2.8.<\/p>\n

To better balance the color and keep contrast under control, I modified the camera RAW file in Lightroom to produce this internet suitable JPG.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a screen shot of the camera-produced JPG with EXIF data for comparison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was curious to experience one of these new locomotives. The Siemens-built Charger is powered by a Cummins diesel and has a European appearance. Among their Amtrak assignments is the Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha\u00a0corridor. I waited on the platform at the new Sturtevant, Wisconsin station. The eerie blue glow of the locomotive\u2019s LED headlights could be seen … Continue reading First Encounter: Amtrak Charger.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21930,"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":[4867,4843,4868,31,234],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Amtrak_Charger_w_Hiawatha_night_at_Sturtevant_Wis_DSCF1806.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5HH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929"}],"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=21929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21943,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions\/21943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}