{"id":2480,"date":"2013-05-13T08:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2013-05-14T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:54:09","slug":"amtrak-capitols-crossing-carquinez-straits-august-12-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-capitols-crossing-carquinez-straits-august-12-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Capitols Crossing Carquinez Straits, August 12, 2009."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dramatic Bridge Silhouette.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Martinez, California, as viewed from Carquinez Scenic Drive. Canon EOS 3 with 100-400 mm lens, Fujichrome slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the morning of August 12, 2009, I used my Canon EOS 3 with a 100-400 mm Canon image stabilization lens to expose this image of an Amtrak California Capitols<\/i> train crossing the former Southern Pacific Carquinez Straits Bridge at Martinez, California. (Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor\u00a0<\/em>derives its name from California’s old and new capital cities, San Jose and Sacramento)<\/p>\n

When this bridge was completed in 1930, it was the largest double track railway bridge west of the Mississippi. Today it carries Amtrak and Union Pacific trains.<\/p>\n

Coastal fog softened the morning sun making for a cosmic effect. Making photographs of the bridge is complicated by \u00a0the\u00a0enormous Interstate 680 bridges that flank it on both sides. I\u2019ve found that a broadside silhouette is the most effective way of capturing the scale of the bridges.<\/p>\n

For another view from this hillside see:<\/p>\n

Union Pacific\u2019s Ozol Yard, Martinez, California, August 12, 2009<\/a>, posted May 13, 2013.<\/p>\n

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