{"id":30109,"date":"2020-11-01T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30109"},"modified":"2020-11-01T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:15:22","slug":"tram-and-goggles-at-plzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tram-and-goggles-at-plzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tram and Goggles at Plzen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a whirlwind trip around the Czech Republic in September 2008, I made hundreds of photos in dozens of places in just a few days. A dozen years later I’m still sorting and scanning them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catching railway vehicles on different levels makes for photos with added interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is the subject here? The tram in the foreground, the train in the distance, or perhaps the station itself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the afternoon of September 5, 2008, when photographer Denis McCabe and I were photographing at Plzen hlavni nadrazi (Plzen main station) that exposed this Fujichrome slide using a Canon EOS-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ceske Drahy (Czech Railways) class 754 diesels have the nickname \u2018Goggles\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light is a Daily Rail-Photography Blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which is the subject here? The tram in the foreground, the train in the distance, or perhaps the station itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6108,48],"tags":[3895,6523,3891,6052,5311,6355,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trams-at-Plzen-main-railway-station-5-Sept-2008-by-Brian-Solomon-225361.jpg?fit=1200%2C816","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7PD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109"}],"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=30109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30111,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109\/revisions\/30111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}