{"id":14393,"date":"2016-03-09T05:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2016-03-09T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:33:08","slug":"irish-rail-looking-back-071-class-gm-diesels-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-looking-back-071-class-gm-diesels-in-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail Looking Back; 071 class GM diesels in 2006."},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Rail\u2019s 071 class diesels are 40-year old work-horse locomotives that are now largely assigned to permanent way and freight trains.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, Irish Rail\u2019s 071s still regular worked passenger services in addition to their other duties. I made a point of photographing the 071s on both main line and branch passenger trains.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail 075 was still in relatively fresh orange and black paint when I made this detailed view at Ballina, County Mayo on 14 April 2006. Exposed on Fujichrome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The class leader; engine 071 rests with the Ballina Branch train at Claremorris, County Mayo. Note the wisp of steam from the generator-van at the back. The 071s\u00a0did\u00a0not have \u00a0provision for steam heat or HEP (head end power). Exposed on Fujichrome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Before the headlight came into view, I could hear the 12-cylinder 645 diesel roaring away. Here an 071 is seen in ‘run-8’ (maximum throttle) as it leads a short Mark2 set from Limerick up Ballybrophy Bank on its way to Dublin. I made this vignette on 9 December 2006. Such scenes would soon become a memory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the features of my presentation to the Irish Railway Record Society this coming Thursday (10 March 2016) will be my vintage images of the 071 at work.<\/p>\n

The talk will begin at 7:30 pm at the IRRS Dublin premises near Heuston Station.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts every day!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Irish Rail\u2019s 071 class diesels are 40-year old work-horse locomotives that are now largely assigned to permanent way and freight trains. Ten years ago, Irish Rail\u2019s 071s still regular worked passenger services in addition to their other duties. I made a point of photographing the 071s on both main line and branch passenger trains. Among … Continue reading Irish Rail Looking Back; 071 class GM diesels in 2006.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14392,"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":[4537,935,7535,3389,20,21,3388],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Irish_Rail_071_w_branch_train_Claremorris_14April_2006_Brian_Solomon_575742.jpg?fit=2494%2C1603","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3K9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393"}],"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=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14404,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions\/14404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}