County Tipperary
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Telephoto on the Beet: 400mm at Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary.
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In this view, exposed west of Kilsheelan, County Tipperary, by using a long telephoto lens, I compressed the train of very short four-wheel beet wagons into a virtual snake of rolling beet.
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Irish Rail: Thurles, County Tipperary at Night.
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Two views exposed with my Lumix LX7 of a Rotem ICR (InterCity Railcar) running from Dublin to Cork that had paused at Thurles for its first station stop since departing Heuston Station.
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Irish Rail’s Nenagh Branch
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Roscrea Revisited—August 2014. I first visited Roscrea in August 1998. Denis McCabe was giving me a tour of rural Irish stations, and we stopped there to intercept the branch passenger train running from Ballybrophy to Limerick. Back then the train…
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DAILY POST: Focused on the Details
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Irish Rail Close-up and Real. It would be something else if it were unreal, no? I’ve always liked to make macro views of railways. Examining the texture, colors, and shape of the equipment, track and structures allows for better appreciation…
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DAILY POST: Irish Rail Weed Spraying Train, Fiddown
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The Old Weed Sprayer was Good Sport. One of my all-time favorite Irish Rail subjects was the annual weedspraying campaign. Every spring, a Bo-Bo would be allocated to haul the ancient looking contraption that functioned as the weed spraying train….
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Indian Summer for the Irish Rail Class 121‑Part 2
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General Motors Single Cab Diesels on the Beet. During sugar beet season Irish Rail was tight for motive power, as the six to seven extra laden trains per day, plus returning empties, tended to tax the railway’s small…
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Irish Rail—Cherryville Junction, 6 December 2003
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In 2003, Irish Rail operated its sugar beet trains via Kildare because the normal routing between Waterford and Limerick Junction was closed as result of a bridge collapse at Cahir, County Tipperary. On December 6, 2003, I was in place…