{"id":35744,"date":"2023-03-31T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35744"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:03:50","slug":"busy-grade-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/busy-grade-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Grade Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On this day four years ago\u201431 March 2019\u2014Denis McCabe and I visited a busy level crossing on Comboios de Portugal (Portugal\u2019s national railway)\u00a0double-track main line at Santarem, north of Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In just a few minutes, we witnessed a parade of freight and passenger trains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crossing was manually operated, and the crossing tender had her work cut out for her. No sooner than one train had cleared, when another approached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made these photos with my FujiFilm XT-1 digital camera. Files were exposed as Fuji RAW and adjusted using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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