{"id":26082,"date":"2019-04-05T05:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26082"},"modified":"2019-04-05T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:22:19","slug":"portuguese-railways-english-electric-diesel-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/portuguese-railways-english-electric-diesel-up-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Railways\u2019 English Electric Diesel Up Close."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>Last Saturday, 30 March 2019, Denis McCabe and I navigated sinuous roads over the hills from the Douro Valley to Marco de Canaveses, Portugal in order to inspect one of Portuguese Railways\u2019 vintage English Electric-built diesels that are temporarily assigned to scheduled passenger services on the scenic sections of the Douro Valley route to the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Locomotive 1455 restored in a retro-blue livery was laying over between runs at the Marco de Canaveses station. We had about 10 minutes to make photos, before we departed for the return drive to the Douro Valley to catch this machine at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26083\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/portuguese-railways-english-electric-diesel-up-close\/cp_blue_english_electric_diesel_w_douro_valley_passenger_train_marco_de_canaveses_p1070748\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CP_blue_English_Electric_diesel_w_Douro_Valley_passenger_train_Marco_de_Canaveses_P1070748.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520\" data-orig-size=\"3776,2520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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