{"id":28690,"date":"2020-02-15T06:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T11:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28690"},"modified":"2020-02-15T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T11:00:40","slug":"cupids-express-under-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cupids-express-under-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupid\u2019s Express under the Stars."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night (February 14th) I traveled on the head-end of Conway Scenic Railroad\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cupid Express<\/em>&nbsp;dinner train that ran over the old Maine Central Mountain Division toward Bartlett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the train paused for the engineer to change ends (we had a locomotive positioned at each end of the train to avoid the need to run around), I exposed a few photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was clear, very cold and the stars were bright. You can see my footprints in the foreground snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The train was a success and was completely sold out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28691\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cupids-express-under-the-stars\/csrr_573_w_valentines_special-near_attitash_p1190031\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.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_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28691\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?w=3776 3776w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Exposed with a Lumix LX7 at f1.4 for 13 seconds, ISO 100. Camera mounted on a Bogen tripod. I made some minor adjustments to exposure and color saturation in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0e00a3;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light posts Every Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night (February 14th) I traveled on the head-end of Conway Scenic Railroad\u2019s Cupid Express dinner train that ran over the old Maine Central Mountain Division toward Bartlett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28691,"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":[4547,6155,1768],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CSRR_573_w_Valentines_Special-near_Attitash_P1190031.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7sK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690"}],"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=28690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28693,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690\/revisions\/28693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}