{"id":6303,"date":"2014-04-14T03:26:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:49:29","slug":"international-train-hotel-entroncamento-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/international-train-hotel-entroncamento-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"International Train Hotel-Entroncamento, Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 3, 2014.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Entroncamento<\/a>
Entroncamento Station, Portugal on the evening of April 3, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portugal shares the broad Iberian standard gauge with Spain: rails are five feet six inches apart. Despite this commonality, today there are relatively few international services between the two countries.<\/p>\n

One of the few cross-border trains is the nightly combined Lusitania\/Sud Expresso<\/i> connecting Lisbon with Spanish cities. The Lusitania <\/i>runs Lisbon-Madrid, while the Sud Expresso<\/i> is a vestige of the old Wagon Lits luxury express that once connected Lisbon with Paris, but now only goes as far as Irun on the Spanish-French frontier.<\/p>\n

The train operates with RENFE (Spanish Railways) TALGO train hotel equipment, which makes it anomalous compared with the majority of Portuguese passenger trains.<\/p>\n

On April 3, 2014, I planned to photograph the eastward Lusitania\/Sud Expresso <\/i>(train 335\/310) during its station stop at Entrocamento, Portugal.<\/p>\n

This is a big station, adjacent to freight yards, shops, and Portugal\u2019s National Railway Museum.<\/p>\n

\"Portugal.\"<\/a>
Entrocamento Station with the nightly Lisbon-Spain train hotel approaching in the distance. Exposed with a Lumix LX3 set at 80 ISO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The train departed Lisbon Santa Apol\u00f3nia at 9:18 pm, and arrived at Entroncamento a little more than an hour later. I had less than five minutes to make photographs.<\/p>\n

I worked with three cameras. First exposing digital time exposures using my Lumix LX3 positioned on a mini Gitzo tripod. I made several images using my standard night photo technique (see: Lumix LX-3\u2014part 2: \u00a0Existing Light Digital Night Shots<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Entrocamento<\/a>
Entrocamento Station with the nightly Lusitania\/Sud Expresso paused for its station stop. Exposed with a Lumix LX3 set at 80 ISO. I used the self timer set at 2 seconds to minimize vibration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then I quickly swapped the Lumix for my Canon EOS 3 with 40mm lens loaded with Provia 100F, and made a three exposure bracket. With film, I find it difficult to gauge night exposures, so I aided my efforts with my handheld Minolta Mark IV light meter.<\/p>\n

Provia 100F has a filtration layer that minimizes undesirable color spikes caused by fluorescent and sodium lighting.<\/p>\n

In the middle of this time-exposure exercise, I also made several handheld images using my Canon EOS 7D set for a high ISO. I figured that covered most of the angles.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I exposed this view of the Lusitania\/Sud Expresso using my Canon EOS 7D handheld with a 20mm lens; ISO 4000 f2.8 1\/50th of a second. While not as critically sharp as the tripod mounted Lumix image, it has a nice feel to it. Also, for me it\u2019s a fast and easy \u2018safety\u2019 shot, in case my more elaborate technique using the Lumix failed to work as hoped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was distracted during my efforts by the arrival of a Takargo Vossloh E4000 diesel (powered by an EMD 16-710 engine) hauling a container train.<\/p>\n

As soon as the train hotel pulled away, I repositioned to photograph the diesel-hauled container train.<\/p>\n

\"Takargo<\/a>
Takargo Vossloh E4000 diesel rumbles in the sodium vapor gloom of Entrocamento. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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