{"id":9552,"date":"2015-01-04T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2015-01-04T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:31:08","slug":"the-least-photographed-high-speed-train-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-least-photographed-high-speed-train-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Least Photographed High Speed Train in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Spain&#8217;s Elusive Broad Gauge TGV.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all seen photos of the French TGV, and the\u00a0German ICE. Yet, Spain also operates a high-speed railway network. While it&#8217;s AVE system uses the European gauge, its rarely photographed<em> Euromed<\/em> rolls along on Iberian broad gauge tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September 2001, I was traveling in eastern Spain with Denis McCabe and we made a project of seeking out this curious and elusive speedster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9553\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/12\/30\/the-least-photographed-high-speed-train-in-europe\/renfe_euromed_sagunt_sept2001_brian_solomon_235088\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9553\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-least-photographed-high-speed-train-in-europe\/renfe_euromed_sagunt_sept2001_brian_solomon_235088\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?fit=800%2C492\" data-orig-size=\"800,492\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100 using  a Nikon F3T with 180mm lens.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?fit=709%2C436\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?fit=474%2C292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9553\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?resize=474%2C292\" alt=\"Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100 using  a Nikon F3T with 180mm lens.\" width=\"474\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?resize=205%2C126 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?resize=709%2C436 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?resize=488%2C300 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100 using a Nikon F3T with 180mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made this image of the <em>Euromed<\/em> westbound at Sagunt, where it was overtaking a local all-stops train. Before I made photographs of the EuroMed, I&#8217;d never before seen an image of the train in print. Even today I&#8217;d argue it is Europe&#8217;s least photographed high-speed train! 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Back in September 2001, I was traveling in eastern Spain with Denis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-least-photographed-high-speed-train-in-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Least Photographed High Speed Train in Europe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[10],"tags":[4537,2508,2505,2509,1389,2507,2506],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RENFE_Euromed_Sagunt_Sept2001_Brian_Solomon_235088.jpg?fit=800%2C492","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2u4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552"}],"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=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9615,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions\/9615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}