{"id":26072,"date":"2019-04-03T04:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26072"},"modified":"2019-04-03T04:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:05:30","slug":"medway-electric-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/medway-electric-cement\/","title":{"rendered":"Medway Electric Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>Last week, Wednesday 27 March 2019, photographer Denis McCabe and I set up at a rural level crossing south of Pampilhosa, Portugal on the double-track electrified Lisbon-Porto mainline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several minutes before a train, warning bells would ring and lights would flash, giving us ample time to prepare for photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crossing is conveniently situated near the apex of curve in an S-bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with my FujiFilm XT1 with 27mm pancake lens, I exposed these photos of a Medway electric leading an empty 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