{"id":14929,"date":"2016-04-12T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=14929"},"modified":"2016-04-12T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:35:33","slug":"views-from-the-train-irish-scenery-trains-tracks-cows-and-snow-no-wait-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/views-from-the-train-irish-scenery-trains-tracks-cows-and-snow-no-wait-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Views from the Train: Irish Scenery; trains, tracks, cows and snow . . . no wait, What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below are a selection of views I made from last weekend\u2019s Irish Railway Record Society 071 Anniversary tour.<\/p>\n

In earlier posts, I\u2019ve covered other elements of this excellent railway trip across Ireland on 9-10 April 2016.<\/p>\n

All photos were exposed digitally from the train\u2019s windows.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail’s Inchicore works as photographed on Saturday morning. This view offers a great cross section of active and stored General Motors diesel locomotives. Note the old 201s still in orange paint. Will they every run again? FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cows<\/a>
Cows in rural Co. Tipperary as view along the Nenagh Branch on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Approach<\/a>
Approaching Cloughjordan on the Nenagh Branch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stormy<\/a>
Stormy weather viewed from the Nenagh Branch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fixed<\/a>
Fixed semaphore near Birdhill, on the Nenagh Branch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail’s Limerick shed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail 076 at Limerick. This engine will take our train to Cork and Kerry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sunset<\/a>
Sunset near Killarney dropping down the Bower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Killarney<\/a>
Killarney, County Kerry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"On<\/a>
On the Sunday morning run from Tralee to Killarney, approaching Farranfore. It was cold and beginning to snow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Climbing<\/a>
Climbing the Bower out of Killarney. There was some snow to be seen. And this was April. For real.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Limerick<\/a>
Limerick Junction cross the Cork line at grade. Note the\u00a0\u00a0Dublin to Cork Mark4 set heading down road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Approaching<\/a>
Approaching Tipperary town, one of the few places where semaphores survive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View<\/a>
View near Clonmel, County Tipperary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Waterford<\/a>
Waterford West on the way toward Kilkenny. Semaphores remain here too! Long may they last.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Old<\/a>
Old 2700 railcars stored at Inchicore. Old. Hmm, I seem to recall these cars being delivered ‘new’. Hmm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of kind livery; Irish Rail 216 in a green primer at Inchicore (as seen from the train).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail 227 in the new Enterprise livery at Connolly shed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking the Light posts new photos daily.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below are a selection of views I made from last weekend\u2019s Irish Railway Record Society 071 Anniversary tour. In earlier posts, I\u2019ve covered other elements of this excellent railway trip across Ireland on 9-10 April 2016. All photos were exposed digitally from the train\u2019s windows. Enjoy! Tracking the Light posts new photos daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[20,21,3473,1077],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3SN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929"}],"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=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14939,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}