{"id":2329,"date":"2013-05-02T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2013-05-01T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:38:51","slug":"fullerton-california-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fullerton-california-june-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Fullerton, California June 2008."},"content":{"rendered":"

LA Metrolink at rush hour.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Fullerton,<\/a>
I exposed this Fullerton<\/a> seen with my Canon EOS 3 with a 100mm f2.0 lens on Fujichrome slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Spring 2008, I spent seven weeks in California<\/a> working on my \u2018Railroads of California\u2019 book for Voyageur Press. I focused on elements of California railroading that I\u2019d missed or had changed since I lived there in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

At the end of May, I took Amtrak\u2019s Coast Starlight from Oakland to Los Angeles. Among my projects was the Los Angeles Metrolink<\/a> commuter rail system.Aiding my effort, Metrolink provided several comp-tickets. On this day, my cousin Stella and I traveled over several of Metrolink routes. I was delighted by the trains, which were air-conditioned and comfortable.<\/p>\n

I focused the evening\u2019s efforts at Fullerton, a location that my father recommended to me. Several years earlier, he\u2019d spent an afternoon waiting for Santa Fe 3751<\/a> (Baldwin-built 4-8-4 steam locomotive) that was working an excursion.<\/p>\n

Fullerton is a busy place with three main tracks that host Metrolink, Amtrak, and BNSF trains. I exposed this image from the foot bridge as a Metrolink train paused for its station stop. Hazy LA-area smoggy sun makes for a nice soft light source, while backlighting offers good contrast for a high impact image.<\/p>\n

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LA Metrolink at rush hour. In Spring 2008, I spent seven weeks in California working on my \u2018Railroads of California\u2019 book for Voyageur Press. I focused on elements of California railroading that I\u2019d missed or had changed since I lived there in the early 1990s. At the end of May, I took Amtrak\u2019s Coast Starlight … Continue reading Fullerton, California June 2008.<\/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":[4537,31,80,276,752,753,754,7535,750,751,749,755,7,4,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-Bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}