{"id":6186,"date":"2014-04-11T03:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:46:13","slug":"bnsf-on-the-old-frisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bnsf-on-the-old-frisco\/","title":{"rendered":"BNSF on the old Frisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rock and Roll Railroad.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

On August 18, 2011, Chris Guss and I were driving northeast across Missouri, aiming for St. Louis, when we intercepted this BNSF potash extra working the old Frisco route.<\/p>\n

It was a hot and sunny day, and new territory for me. But for Chris the line was old hat, and we had a very productive chase.<\/p>\n

\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D fitted with a 100-400 image stabilization zoom lens set at 135mm; f8 at 1\/500th of second, ISO 200.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We made this view near Swedeland, Missouri, where the line passes through a sag and some S-bends. This offered a great place to portray the long and snaky unit train.<\/p>\n

The way the line hugs the rolling landscape reminded me a bit of Ireland’s Westport line.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow: last week’s time warp: a country station largely unspoiled by time.<\/p>\n

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