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Yellow-Face Irish Rail 201 works toward Dublin—April 2006.

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Among the features of Irish Rail in 2006 were two new paint liveries that had been introduced the year previous.

I preferred the yellow-face scheme on the 201 class diesel. This photographed better than either the older predominantly orange livery, or the new two-tone green and silver (such featured in yesterday’s post).

Irish Rail's 213 descends the grade from Ballybrophy on its way toward Dublin on 17 April 2006. Its hard for me to believe that I made this image almost a decade ago. The wire drifting through the scene has always annoyed me. It's easy enough to removing in post processing, but I'm not sure that is the honest thing to do. My slide show on Thursday will show the images as they are without modification.
Irish Rail’s 213 descends the grade from Ballybrophy on its way toward Dublin on 17 April 2006. It’s hard for me to believe that I made this image almost a decade ago. The wire drifting through the scene has always annoyed me. It’s easy enough to removing in post processing, but I’m not sure that is the honest thing to do. My slide show on Thursday will show the images as they are without modification.

The brighter ends proved visually especially advantageous in situations such as this one where the front-end was shadowed.

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On 10 March 2016, I will present a feature length illustrated talk to the Irish Railway Record Society in Dublin; my topic, Irish Railways in 2006.

This will begin at 7:30 pm at the IRRS Dublin premises near Heuston Station, Dublin.