{"id":32293,"date":"2021-11-20T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32293"},"modified":"2021-11-19T22:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T03:03:57","slug":"when-amtrak-2-leads-no-eight-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/when-amtrak-2-leads-no-eight-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"When Amtrak 2 leads No. Eight at Dusk."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was afraid that if I called this post &#8216;Empire Builder Part 2&#8217; it might get lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Saturday (November 13, 2021) Kris and I waited for Amtrak&#8217;s westward <em>Empire Builder<\/em> at Duplainville, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to catch it passing the vintage GRS Searchlights that date from the Milwaukee Road era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dusk is one of the most effective time to photograph searchlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img 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For these photos I had the ISO set to 1600, which allowed me a 1\/640th second shutter speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#2965c6\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday (November 13, 2021) Kris and I waited for Amtrak&#8217;s westward Empire Builder at Duplainville, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32295,"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":[10,48],"tags":[5028,4613,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amtrak_No7_Empire_Builder_Duplainville_w_searchlight_signals_DSC_0454-2.jpg?fit=1600%2C1065","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8oR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293"}],"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=32293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32298,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions\/32298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}