{"id":31217,"date":"2021-05-18T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31217"},"modified":"2021-05-17T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T03:42:19","slug":"vr-pendolino-at-tikkurila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vr-pendolino-at-tikkurila\/","title":{"rendered":"Vr Pendolino at Tikkurila"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In July 2015, I accompanied my friend Markku Pulkkinnen on tour of Finnish railways that included a visit to greater Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Tikkurila in suburban Helsinki, I made this photograph of a VR Group Pendolino on its way north toward Oulu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland is one of my favorite European nations and a wonderful place to watch trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"31218\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vr-pendolino-at-tikkurila\/vr_pendolino_at_tikkurila_dscf4330\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?fit=1400%2C933\" data-orig-size=\"1400,933\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?w=1400 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Exposed using a FujiFilm XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is among the countries that I will feature today at 1pm in my Zoom presentation to the Virginia Rail Policy Institute titled &#8220;<strong><em>Optimizing shared-use rail corridors in Europe:\u00a0 How do rail freight and passenger operations co-exist<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/us18.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=http%3A%2F%2Fus18.forward-to-friend.com%2Fforward%2Fshow%3Fu%3D4f94dd611dde4fe207a64c0cc%26id%3Da76983ce14&amp;h=faba1a13223d6248847da5910bb6c885ad4a1a50c60707102c39385d944dda93&amp;v=1&amp;xid=9eff23f203&amp;uid=138337325&amp;pool=&amp;subject=Meredith+Richards+is+forwarding+an+email+to+you\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/us18.forward-to-friend.com\/forward\/show?u=4f94dd611dde4fe207a64c0cc&amp;id=a76983ce14<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#26a300\">Tracking the Light is Brian Solomon&#8217;s Daily Blog on railways and photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will feature Finland today in my  1pm Zoom presentation to the Virginia Rail Policy Institute titled &#8220;Optimizing shared-use rail corridors in Europe:  How do rail freight and passenger operations co-exist&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31218,"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":[],"tags":[6391,5533,7535,7536,6796],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vr_Pendolino_at_Tikkurila_DSCF4330.jpg?fit=1400%2C933","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-87v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217"}],"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=31217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31219,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217\/revisions\/31219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}