{"id":27366,"date":"2019-07-19T07:13:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27366"},"modified":"2019-07-19T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:13:56","slug":"the-gateway-cut-at-crawford-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-gateway-cut-at-crawford-notch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gateway Cut at Crawford Notch."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3776\" height=\"2520\" data-attachment-id=\"27367\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-gateway-cut-at-crawford-notch\/csrr_1751_and_216_w_notch_train_at_gateway_at_crawford_notch_p1110570\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520\" data-orig-size=\"3776,2520\" 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=\"CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?w=3776 3776w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Near the summit of the former Maine Central Mountain Division at Crawford Notch, the line passes through a deep rock cutting in a natural low point in the mountains known as the Gateway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conway Scenic\u2019s normal operations of its Notch Train to Crawford\u2019s Station finds the train passing the Gateway at the peak of high sun. In other words,&nbsp;&nbsp;one of the most difficult  times for photography using natural lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fires in the West resulted in particulate matter and haze, which last week provide a great degree of diffusion, making these condition an ideal time to catch the Notch Train on its uphill run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with my Lumix LX7, I exposed this view from the railroad east end (compass south) of the famous cutting. Having locomotive 1751 in the lead was an added bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#2209ec;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\">T<strong>racking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the summit of the former Maine Central Mountain Division at Crawford Notch, the line passes through a deep rock cutting in a natural low point in the mountains known as the Gateway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27367,"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":[5754,5753,1487,7535,1414],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CSRR_1751_and_216_w_Notch_train_at_Gateway_at_Crawford_Notch_P1110570.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-77o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366"}],"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=27366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27369,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366\/revisions\/27369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}