{"id":41157,"date":"2025-02-14T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41157"},"modified":"2025-02-10T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:26:39","slug":"swedish-crown-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/swedish-crown-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Crown Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a visit to Stockholm in May 2010, I made this color slide of a Coradia Duplex X40 long-distance electric multiple unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My framing inadvertently visually aligned the curves on the front of the train with a steeple in the background. 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