{"id":41004,"date":"2025-01-20T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41004"},"modified":"2025-01-20T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:40:54","slug":"one-massive-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/one-massive-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"One Massive Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On  our January 2007 Austrian epic, photographer Denis McCabe and I drove a hired car up a hill at Penk in the Alps to score this view of a massive arched bridge on the Tauern Pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic over the route is light compared with either the Brenner or Semmering alpine routes. Yet, we caught several trains in a relatively short span of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, an \u00d6BB Siemens Taurus electric leads an Intercity passenger bound for Villach in southern Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scale of the bridge seems out of proportion with the railway; its like an O-scale structure carrying an N-scale train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"718\" data-attachment-id=\"41006\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/one-massive-arch\/obb_taurus_w_ic_train_arch_bridge_penk_on_tauern_pass_austria_jan15_2007brian_solomon_122312\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?fit=1352%2C2048\" data-orig-size=\"1352,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1737130265&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9BrianSolomon&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=\"OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?fit=468%2C709\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?fit=474%2C718\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?resize=474%2C718&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41006\" style=\"width:675px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?w=1352 1352w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?resize=468%2C709 468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?resize=675%2C1022 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?resize=99%2C150 99w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?resize=1014%2C1536 1014w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OBB_Taurus_w_IC_train_arch_bridge_Penk_on_Tauern_Pass_Austria_Jan15_2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122312.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Exposed on Fujichrome with a Canon EOS-3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6e376b2401b45991a7cc0ad5d2e67f7e\" style=\"color:#be2020\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scale of the bridge seems out of proportion with the railway; 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