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Dublin Heuston to Kent Station, Cork

After a week in London, Kris and I returned to Dublin. Upon arrival at Dublin Airport we took the 782 bus directly to Heuston Station and bought tickets for the first available through train to Cork.

Although, Irish Rail wasn’t having the best day, and our train was a Hyundai-Rotem built Intercity Railcar (Known as an ICR) instead of one of the locomotive hauled CAF-built Mark 4 train sets, we had a good train ride.

As soon as the train was anounced we proceeded directly to the boarding platform and secured places for our luggage and ourselves on-board the train. Irish rail’s InterCity trains are very well patronized, and our train, which had just five cars, was essentially full departing Dublin.

The train departed within 30 seconds of the advertised and ran express to Portloaise under sunny skies. We arrived in Cork ahead of schedule!

I made all of these photos using my Lumix LX7. The images were recorded as RAW (RW2) files and then adjusted in post processing using Lightroom.

There’s been some big changes at Dublin Heuston since my day’s living near here. A four story control center was built on the site of the Guinness sidings and locomotive 218 has been converted to run on bio-fuel and painted to advertise this feature.
There’s been some big changes at Dublin Heuston since my day’s living near here. A four story control center was built on the site of the Guinness sidings and locomotive 218 has been converted to run on bio-fuel and painted to advertise this feature.
There’s been some big changes at Dublin Heuston since my day’s living near here. A four story control center was built on the site of the Guinness sidings and locomotive 218 has been converted to run on bio-fuel and painted to advertise this feature.
For reasons known only to Irish Rail, our train made a scheduled stop at the remote station at Ballybrophy, which is probably the least used station on the Dublin-Cork route. For the record, a passenger got off the train here.
For reasons known only to Irish Rail, our train made a scheduled stop at the remote station at Ballybrophy, which is probably the least used station on the Dublin-Cork route. For the record, a passenger got off the train here.
For reasons known only to Irish Rail, our train made a scheduled stop at the remote station at Ballybrophy, which is probably the least used station on the Dublin-Cork route. For the record, a passenger got off the train here.
After the station stop at Mallow—where passengers can change for the route to Killarney and Tralee, our train was about half empty.
After the station stop at Mallow—where passengers can change for the route to Killarney and Tralee, our train was about half empty.
After the station stop at Mallow—where passengers can change for the route to Killarney and Tralee, our train was about half empty.

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Lidl Tram Prowls Dublin’s LUAS Red Line—3 photos.

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In recent weeks, two advertising trams have been working the LUAS Red Line in Dublin. Previously, I featured a view of the white TESCO tram.

In this post, I ofter a few view of the brightly adorned Lidl advertising tram.

This really stands out and distinguishes it from the multitude of LUAS Citidis trams on the Dublin network.

Abbey Street, Dublin.

On Benburb Street at Blackhall.
Smithfield, Dublin

I made these photos with my Lumix LX7.

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The Shay and the Segway.

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Lumix LX7 in-camera JPG without adjustments—compare with photo below.



Last weekend, while visiting Clark’s Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire with Lisa King, I had the opportunity to make a brief journey on a Segway two-wheel self-balancing motorized scooter.
 
As I balanced on the Segway, I used my Lumix LX7, to make a view of three-truck Shay-type steam locomotive lettered for the Woodstock Lumber Company and owned by Clark’s railroad, the White Mountain Central.
 
In other words, while traveling on one relatively obscure wheeled device, I exposed a photo of another relatively obscure wheeled device.
 
Keeping the camera level was the tricky part.
 
On my return, White Mountain Central’s excursion train rolled by. While hardly an exemplary image, this one shows both a train and a Segway in the same image.
 
And so now for another story . . .  we saw some bears too!
 
Processed JPG working from Lumix LX7 RAW file. Contrast, exposure and color balance adjusted for improved internet viewing. Notice the greater amounts of detail in the blast and shadow areas.
What’s a Segway? In this view you can see one in motion at the left. On right is the White Mountain Central excursion train. This view was made while in motion.


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Amtrak 163 at Providence, Rhode Island.

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Amtrak ‘Cities Sprinter’ ACS-64 number 633 tows one of its sister electrics with train 163 as it arrives at Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, December 2, 2017.

I exposed this view using my Lumix LX-7.

Amtrak’s line at Providence is charmless, but functional. Heavy electrification in an urban environment is rarely picturesque. To make a satisfactory image of a moving train takes patience, skill or both.

This is a routine view of American passenger rails in action, nothing sexy, and nothing complicated or tricky photographically.

Lumix LX-7 digital photo exposed at 12:19pm on December 2, 2017; ISO 80, f4.0 at 1/400th of a second, handheld with adjustable camera zoom lens set to the functional equivalent of a 65mm focal lens on tradition 35mm film camera.

Here’s a screen shot of the photo with a window showing the EXIF data stored with the digital file.

Does my cross-lit midday view of a Siemens electric with 1970s-era Amfleet passenger cars work for you?

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Lumix views at Milford—Metro North M8 bound for Grand Central.

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The other day I made these views with my Lumix LX7 from the platform at Milford, Connecticut before boarding the train pictured.

Yes, it’s just an ordinary Metro-North passenger train. Nothing unusual or extraordinary, but it still makes for a interesting subject.

On the tech side; to make the photos more appealing and balanced, I worked with the RAW files in Lightroom to adjust the contrast and lighten the shadows.

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