{"id":13291,"date":"2015-12-11T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:59:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T03:59:32","slug":"tracking-the-light-on-the-beet-11-december-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-on-the-beet-11-december-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light on the Beet\u201411 December 1999."},"content":{"rendered":"

On this Day Sixteen Years Ago:<\/span><\/h2>\n

The millennium was coming to a close. I was just back in Ireland after a few months wandering. I arrived by ferry from Holyhead the night before.<\/p>\n

The short days of winter offer moments of stunning low sun against what can often be a stark Irish environment.<\/p>\n

It was the height of Irish Rail\u2019s annual sugar beet campaign, so Denis McCabe and I headed first for Wexford\u00a0(Wellingtonbridge to be specific) then worked our way west, finishing the day at Clonmel, County Tipperary.<\/p>\n

Although, we come for the sugar beet, a side attraction were a pair of timber trains that were unloading there.<\/p>\n

I was working with three cameras. One was a Nikon loaded with Ilford HP5. Ironically, most of those black & white photos have been squirreled away in my files for the last 16 years.<\/p>\n

\"Ilford<\/a>
Ilford HP5 is a great film and offers excellent tonality on stark winter’s days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s a sample of what I did that afternoon at Clonmel. Pretty neat in retrospect, however, what was more significant for me photographically was that this trip inspired a half-decade of intensive photographic adventures to document the sugar beet campaign.<\/p>\n

\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail class 071 engine number 076 lead a loaded sugar beet train at Clonmel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The old four-wheel sugar beet wagons were a fascinating subject. They looked positively ancient, even back in 1999!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking west at Clonmel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"At<\/a>
At that time only one passenger train a day served the old station in each direction. Someone\u00a0inside suggested I take the bus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"In<\/a>
In the sidings off in the distance were two timber trains. One is hiding behind the signal cabin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A pair of venerable GM diesels shunt a timber train at Clonmel. Don’t travel there today and expect this sort of action, you’ll only be disappointed. (Although the cabin remains active).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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