{"id":18135,"date":"2017-03-26T05:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18135"},"modified":"2017-03-23T05:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:48:18","slug":"irish-rail-mark4-in-verdant-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-mark4-in-verdant-countryside\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail Mark4 in Verdant Countryside."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most scenic portion of Irish Rail\u2019s run from Dublin to Cork is the final stretch from Mallow to Kent Station Cork.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Ken Fox, Sean Twohig and I made a survey of this area of Co. Cork looking for locations to picture the Mark4 trains, which are among the only regularly scheduled locomotive powered passenger trains remaining on Irish Rail.<\/p>\n<p>I exposed this view between Mourne Abbey and Rathduff. The lush greenery dotted with blossoming gorse makes for a bucolic scene.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18134\" style=\"width: 1732px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18134\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-mark4-in-verdant-countryside\/irish_rail_down_mark4_south_of_mallow_dscf1953\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155\" data-orig-size=\"1732,1155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1489760113&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed using a FujiFilm X-T1 with 18-135mm lens set at 55mm; 1\/500 second, ISO 1000.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18134\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?w=1732 1732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed using a FujiFilm X-T1 with 18-135mm lens set at 55mm; 1\/500 second, ISO 1000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Solomon\u2019s Tracking the Light posts daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The most scenic portion of Irish Rail\u2019s run from Dublin to Cork is the final stretch from Mallow to Kent Station Cork. A few days ago, Ken Fox, Sean Twohig and I made a survey of this area of Co. Cork looking for locations to picture the Mark4 trains, which are among the only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-mark4-in-verdant-countryside\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish Rail Mark4 in Verdant Countryside.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18134,"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":[4117,4116,650,21,3476],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Irish_Rail_down_Mark4_south_of_Mallow_DSCF1953.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135"}],"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=18135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18136,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135\/revisions\/18136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}