{"id":41382,"date":"2025-03-18T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41382"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:00:16","slug":"sunset-superliners-and-searchlight-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunset-superliners-and-searchlight-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset, Superliners and Searchlight Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another photo from my Classic Chrome files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide on February 25, 1995 at Highlands, Illinois, on the famous Burlington triple-track raceway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amtrak No. 6, the eastward California Zephyr<\/em>, was on its final lap to reach Chicago Union Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was working with my old Nikon F3T fitted with an f4.0 200mm lens. The secret to this photo was my notebook, which I used as a lens shade to control flare, thus making the glint effect more dramatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another key element of the image was my choice of focus, which I set on the signal bridge, which is the secondary subject and a important part of the composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I scanned the slide using a Nikon LS5000 slide scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The secret to this photo was my notebook . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5028,5965,8239,8240],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Amtrak_No6_California_Zephyr_Superliners_Highlands_ILL_on_BN_Feb25_1995\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123038.jpg?fit=2048%2C1383","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aLs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41384,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382\/revisions\/41384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}