{"id":33922,"date":"2022-07-25T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33922"},"modified":"2022-07-24T20:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T00:21:11","slug":"soviet-electrics-on-july-25-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/soviet-electrics-on-july-25-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Electrics on July 25, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seven years ago I was visiting my friend Markku Pulkkinen in Oulu, Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the evening of July 25th, we stopped in at the VR station to witness the arrival of sleeping car train IC266 that paused on its way to Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the lead were a pair of 1970s era Sr1 electrics that were built in the Soviet Union and still carried their &#8216;USSR&#8217; builder&#8217;s tags (notably in English, rather than Russian or Finnish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed these detail views using my new FujiFilm XT1 digital camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" data-attachment-id=\"33923\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/soviet-electrics-on-july-25-2015\/vr_sr1s_close_up_w_ic266_oulu_station_dscf3486\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/VR_Sr1s_close_up_w_IC266_Oulu_Station_DSCF3486.jpg?fit=1133%2C1700\" data-orig-size=\"1133,1700\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1437857125&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;30.9&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" 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