{"id":22033,"date":"2018-08-29T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22033"},"modified":"2018-09-01T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T20:37:29","slug":"22033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/22033\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Paul and Whose Train is This?\u2014 Or a Wink of Sun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, leading locomotives don\u2019t necessarily reflect the operator or even the originator of long distance freights. In fact this is a Canadian National train, working the old Wisconsin Central line.<\/p>\n<p>Musical legend and an\u00a0electric guitar inventor, Les Paul was from Waukesha, and here a thoroughfare has been named for him. Its elevated crossing of CN made for nice vistas in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was partly cloudy, momentarily brilliant morning sun made for nice illumination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22034\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22034\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/22033\/cn_potash_train_s756-81-01_w_ns9400_les_paul_blvd_waukesha_wis_mp94_dscf1858\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309\" data-orig-size=\"3464,2309\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&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=\"CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22034\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A unit potash train \u00a0led by Norfolk Southern 9400 rolls along below Les Paul Boulevard in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Notice the old-school code lines to the left of the railroad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Exposed using my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light posts daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, leading locomotives don\u2019t necessarily reflect the operator or even the originator of long distance freights. In fact this is a Canadian National train, working the old Wisconsin Central line. Musical legend and an\u00a0electric guitar inventor, Les Paul was from Waukesha, and here a thoroughfare has been named for him. Its elevated crossing of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/22033\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Les Paul and Whose Train is This?\u2014 Or a Wink of Sun.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22034,"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":[4879,4880,493,1581],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CN_Potash_Train_S756-81-01_w_NS9400_Les_Paul_Blvd_Waukesha_Wis_mp94_DSCF1858.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BVuC-22033","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033"}],"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=22033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22061,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions\/22061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}