{"id":17724,"date":"2017-01-20T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T10:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17724"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:23:19","slug":"irish-rails-friday-glint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rails-friday-glint\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail\u2019s Friday Glint."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I take a haphazard approach to photography; I explore and see what I find, then run with what is handed to me. This works well some of the time.<\/p>\n

However, I often take a more calculated approach, paying careful advanced attention to weather, lighting and train schedules\/operating patterns. Obviously, this works best on railways that make an effort to operate to the schedule.<\/p>\n

Back in autumn 2006, fellow photographer David Hegarty and I made several focused trips to Co. Mayo to photograph the Westport Line and Ballina Branch.<\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s the once per week Dublin Heuston to Ballina direct passenger train was scheduled to cross the evening Westport-Dublin daily passenger at Ballyhaunis (one station east of Claremorris.) This meant that the cabin had to be staffed to work signals, points, Electric Train Staff instruments, etc.<\/p>\n

I think we made three Friday evening visits before getting it right.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome Velvia 100 using a Canon EOS 3 with 200mm lens. To minimize flare, I used my handheld notebook to shade the front element of the lens. If there was \u00a0one practical\u00a0lesson from this exercise, that’s it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On September 15, 2006, I exposed this trailing glint view of the down Friday Ballina train with a class 071 diesel and Mark 2 carriages meeting a class 201 locomotive leading Mark 3s on the up train to Dublin.<\/p>\n

Soon all was to change. The signals were replaced with mini-CTC, the Mark 2s were retired, soon followed by the Mark 3s, and as a result the 071s relegated to freight\/per way work.<\/p>\n

Yet at the time the most difficult part of this photograph was the lighting! Finding a clear afternoon in Mayo isn\u2019t an easy task.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Noel Enright for arranging for the sun to come out at the right moment.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts every day!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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