{"id":29569,"date":"2020-07-31T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29569"},"modified":"2020-07-31T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:22:47","slug":"400mm-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/400mm-on-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"400mm on the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Conway Scenic Railroad, we call the stretch of line on the Conway Branch running up to our yard at North Conway, &#8216;the Hill&#8217;. This uses a prolonged man-made fill to lift the railroad to its necessary elevation to serve the town. It is the steepest grade on the railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, July 30, 2020, I opted to work with my Canon EOS 7D with 100-400 lens to catch former Maine Central 252 on its northward run with the second Conway Valley train. 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Among her collection of card readers and accessories, she found an old USB2 &#8216;All-in-1 Card Reader&#8217; and this did the trick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hooray!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0024a3\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts EVERY DAY!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, July 30, 2020, I opted to work with my Canon EOS 7D with 100-400 lens to catch former Maine Central 252 on its northward run with the second Conway Valley train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":[4208,5784,6403,3786,4537],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CSRR_252_w_Valley_Train_coming_up_the_Hill_at_North_Conway_400mm_view_IMG_8367-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7GV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569"}],"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=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29571,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions\/29571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}