{"id":42186,"date":"2025-07-17T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42186"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:30:58","slug":"a-busy-but-bleak-austere-place-where-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-busy-but-bleak-austere-place-where-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"A Busy, but Bleak, Austere Place; where am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trebusice. . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long ago I noted that there seems to be an inverse ratio regarding railroads with traffic and those passing bucolic photogenic scenery. With a few notable exceptions, the rule is simple: pretty places require lots of patience or great fortuity; while grim, dire venues often benefit from a concentration of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rural Vermont: pretty and pretty quiet. Industrial overbuilt northern Indiana: bustling with trains seemingly on the move at every bend in the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a cool, gray afternoon in January 2009 when Denis McCabe, Tim Doherty, and I visited Trebusice in western Czech Republic (Czechia). Here we found an intensively utilized multiple track electrified line surrounded by strip mines, yards, and heavy industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The place was crawling with trains, and correspondingly bleak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fascinating, yet apocalyptic. Photogenic because of its exceptional severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I exposed a roll of Fujichrome using a Canon EOS 7D. Monday, I scanned a few of the slides. Did I also expose some Kodak Tri-X? I should have. Gray was the operative color. I’ve included a few images here. More to follow in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light is on autopilot while Brian & Kris are on holidays.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trebusice: Fascinating, yet apocalyptic, and photogenic because of its exceptional severity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42190,"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":[8364,8365,6052,8366,5402],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CD_class_363_Trebusice_Brian-Solomon_123611.jpg?fit=2048%2C1347&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aYq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42211,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186\/revisions\/42211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}