{"id":27223,"date":"2019-06-30T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27223"},"modified":"2019-06-30T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:41:09","slug":"conway-magnificence-budd-dome-and-steam-at-willey-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conway-magnificence-budd-dome-and-steam-at-willey-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway Magnificence: Budd Dome and Steam at Willey Brook."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve just scratched the surface reviewing the many photos I made yesterday (June 29, 2019) of Conway Scenic\u2019s Trains, Planes and Automobiles steam excursion over New Hampshire\u2019s Crawford Notch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the first public excursion with Conway\u2019s new Budd-dome Rhonda Lee<\/em> (formerly Silver Splendor<\/em>) as featured on Tracking the Light. And the first time the car was teamed up with steam locomotive 7470.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this view of the iconic Willey Brook Trestle on the return run in the afternoon where the steam locomotive was trailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years I\u2019d admired photos from the vantage point on the rocks above the bridge, which has been used to photograph the railway since it was constructed in the 1870s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never realized how difficult it was to get up there until I had to make the ascent myself, with all my gear in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This view was exposed using a FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Zeiss Touit mounted on a Gitzo tripod. I used an external Lee graduated filter to help improve sky detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By working in the vertical-oriented portrait format, I was better able to show the distance of the stream below the bridge and the great verticality of the entire scene. I\u2019m specifically mimicking a 19th<\/sup>century glass plate view, while remembering a Kodachrome slide my friend Brian Jennison exposed here of a Maine Central freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was the first public excursion with Conway\u2019s new Budd-dome Rhonda Lee (formerly Silver Splendor) as featured on Tracking the Light. And the first time the car was teamed up with steam locomotive 7470.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[10,48],"tags":[5777,5754,5753,5776,5004,5766,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Silver_Splendor_and_7470_at_Willey_Brook_DSCF8105-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C692","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-755","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27223"}],"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=27223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27227,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27223\/revisions\/27227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}