Rail
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DAILY POST: Winners and Losers.
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Contrasting Views of Indiana Railway Lines, June 2004. In a world of railway mergers and consolidation, we can divide railway routes into groups; survivors and losers. Some lines have prevailed while others have been abandoned and ripped up. Of course,…
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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 at Ballybrophy, June 2006.
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Views of Action and Architecture Ballybrophy is a rural station on Irish Rail’s Dublin-Cork main line. It’s probably the smallest community on the route to retain an active passenger station and survives as result of it being the connection to…
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DAILY POST: Irish Rail, Clonmel, County Tipperary, July 2003.
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Atmospheric Image of a Rural Branch Line. In the damp evening gloom on July 18, 2003, Irish Rail’s signalman at Clonmel awaits the arrival of the Waterford-Limerick passenger train. He holds the metal staff that will authorize the train…
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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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Daily Post: Irish Rail, Wellingtonbridge, County Wexford, December 2005
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A Look at the Final Beet Season. Between September and January Irish Rail moved sugar beet from a loading facility at Wellingtonbridge to a processing factory in Mallow county Cork. In the last beet season, six days a week Wellingtonbridge…
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Daily Post: Twenty Cylinders in 2013
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Finding an old EMD Locomotive at Work Near its Birth Place. Followers of Tracking the Light may have noticed that I have a penchant for Electro-Motive Division 20-Cylinder diesels. Not only have I featured these in many of my books,…
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DART at Connolly Station, October 10, 2013
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New Irish Rail Logo on 8600-series cars. Last Thursday, October 10, 2013, I took Irish Rail’s DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) from Connolly Station, Dublin to Glenageary. While not specifically a trip to make photos, I had a couple of…
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Irish Rail, Stacumny Bridge, June 17, 2000.
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Looking back at a Place Transformed. During my fifteen years in Ireland, few railway locations have changed as much as the area around Hazelhatch. I made this photo of a single 121 leading the empty gypsum train (destined for…
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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 at Clondalkin, February 21, 2013
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This morning (February 21, 2013), Dublin dawned frosty and dull. On Thursdays, Irish Rail runs a pair of intermodal freight liners between Dublin port and Ballina, County Mayo for shipping company IWT (International Warehousing and Transport). Today, the first…
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Irish Rail Intercity Railcar Panned; February 18, 2013
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Here’s a panned view of an Irish Rail intercity railcar near Islandbridge, Dublin that I exposed a little while ago (February 18, 2013). A pan of a 22K-series ICR? No, this isn’t a litany of complaint regarding the common Rotem-built…