{"id":16755,"date":"2016-09-21T05:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16755"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:39:32","slug":"rolling-meet-at-mosney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rolling-meet-at-mosney\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Meet at Mosney."},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a certain thrill to having two trains approach simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Denis McCabe, David Hegarty and myself had selected a bridge near Mosney (mp25) on the old Great Northern Railway Dublin-Belfast line as a good place to catch Belmond\u2019s Grand Hibernian<\/em> cruise train.<\/p>\n

The Belmond train departed Dublin Connolly behind an Irish Rail local passenger train and its progress was slowed when it encountered restrictive signals.<\/p>\n

Another Irish Rail local was scheduled in the Dublin direction.<\/p>\n

As it happened the two trains passed below us.<\/p>\n

\"Belmont's
Belmont’s Grand Hibernian rolls northward at milepost 25. The lighting was tricky. Diffused backlit sun made for a complicated exposure calculation. I used a Lee .6 graduated neutral density filter to hold detail in the sky. In post processing I lightened shadow detail slightly while controlling highlights to reduce glare on the top of the locomotive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I
I turned quickly to make this grab shot of the Grand Hibernian meeting an Irish Rail 29000-series diesel railcar on the opposite main track. In retrospect, I think I’d could have made a more dramatic image if I’d used a telephoto lens setting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I moved over a few feet to get a better angle of the approaching railcar. The gray roofs on Belmond’s Mark3 carriages isn’t especially photogenic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I exposed\u00a0this sequence using\u00a0my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts often.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a certain thrill to having two trains approach simultaneously. Saturday, Denis McCabe, David Hegarty and myself had selected a bridge near Mosney (mp25) on the old Great Northern Railway Dublin-Belfast line as a good place to catch Belmond\u2019s Grand Hibernian cruise train. The Belmond train departed Dublin Connolly behind an Irish Rail local passenger … Continue reading Rolling Meet at Mosney.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16753,"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":[3788,3781,3779,20,21,3819,3820],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Belmond_Grand_Hibernian_meets_29000_at_mp25_near_Mosney_DSCF4247.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755"}],"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=16755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16758,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions\/16758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}