{"id":27353,"date":"2019-07-17T07:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27353"},"modified":"2019-07-17T07:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:42:46","slug":"short-and-steep-views-from-the-ascent-of-mount-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/short-and-steep-views-from-the-ascent-of-mount-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Short and Steep; views from the Ascent of Mount Washington."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"27354\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/short-and-steep-views-from-the-ascent-of-mount-washington\/mt_washington_cog_rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_dscf9585\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?w=4896 4896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_DSCF9585.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Saturday\u2019s excursion atop Mount Washington lent to some precipitous views of the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over its 150 years, I imagine that every inch of this short but steep railway has been photographed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not withstanding that, I\u2019ve added my FujiFilm XT1 photos to the mix. Here\u2019s a selection as we rode up on the train. Special thanks to our brakemen on the way up who allowed me to make a few photos from the door at the end of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"27355\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/short-and-steep-views-from-the-ascent-of-mount-washington\/mt_washington_cog_rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_at_waumbek_passing_siding_dscf9598\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_at_Waumbek_passing_siding_DSCF9598.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Washington Cog Railway!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday\u2019s excursion atop Mount Washington lent to some precipitous views of the line. Over its 150 years, I imagine that every inch of this short but steep railway has been photographed. Not withstanding that, I\u2019ve added my FujiFilm XT1 photos to the mix. Here\u2019s a selection as we rode up on the train. Special &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/short-and-steep-views-from-the-ascent-of-mount-washington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short and Steep; views from the Ascent of Mount Washington.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27357,"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],"tags":[5801,5800,5804,7535,1414],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mt_Washington_Cog_Rwy_view_from_train_ascending_the_grade_at_Waumbek_passing_siding_DSCF9606.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-77b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353"}],"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=27353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27359,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions\/27359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}