{"id":34231,"date":"2022-09-10T08:46:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34231"},"modified":"2022-09-10T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T12:46:44","slug":"tokyo-trolley-in-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tokyo-trolley-in-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Trolley in Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 22, 1997: I ascended a footbridge over a busy Tokyo thoroughfare to make photos of the rarely captured Tokyo trolley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where most of the railway lines in Japan are meter-gauge, the Tokyo Trolley is unusual because it was an early use of 4 ft 8.5 inch gauge train in Japan. The other big users of &#8216;standard gauge&#8217; in Japan are the Shinkansen routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s post, I described the compositional challenges of poles and wires near Bartlett, NH. 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