{"id":10762,"date":"2015-04-26T01:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T05:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2015-04-26T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T05:22:44","slug":"meeting-of-the-gauges-near-portlaoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/meeting-of-the-gauges-near-portlaoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting of the Gauges near Portlaoise"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are only a few places where the narrow gauge Bord na Mona crosses Irish Rail\u2019s broad gauge lines.<\/p>\n

If you ride from Dublin to Cork, you might catch a glimpse of the three-foot gauge tracks ducking under the mainline a ways west of the \u2018Laoise Traincar Depot\u2019 (where Irish Rail maintains its Intercity Railcar fleet).<\/p>\n

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Dublin bound Irish Rail ICR (Intercity Railcar) crosses the Bord na Mona 3-foot gauge near Portlaoise. Fuji X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cork-bound<\/a>
Cork-bound train with a 201-class diesel crosses the Bord na Mona 3-foot gauge near Portlaoise. Fuji X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Making successful photos of trains here\u00a0is tricky. They sail along at 90mph and owing to the angle of the lines, there\u2019s very little time to position the front of the train at the crossing point.<\/p>\n

I set my Fuji X-T1 to \u2018CH\u2019 (continuous high), which automatically exposes a burst of images in rapid succession.<\/p>\n

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Owing to infrequent operations on the narrow gauge, it will be a challenge to try to score an \u2018under-and-over\u2019 image here. But at least that\u2019s a goal for another day.<\/p>\n

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There are only a few places where the narrow gauge Bord na Mona crosses Irish Rail\u2019s broad gauge lines. If you ride from Dublin to Cork, you might catch a glimpse of the three-foot gauge tracks ducking under the mainline a ways west of the \u2018Laoise Traincar Depot\u2019 (where Irish Rail maintains its Intercity Railcar … Continue reading Meeting of the Gauges near Portlaoise<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[10],"tags":[3786,318,7535,21,2666,2667],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ICR_crossing_Bord_na_Mona_DSCF6586.jpg?fit=800%2C533","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2NA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10764,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions\/10764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}