{"id":18335,"date":"2017-04-23T05:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T09:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18335"},"modified":"2017-04-24T01:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:10:03","slug":"irish-rail-at-cabra-spoil-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-at-cabra-spoil-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail at Cabra; Spoil revisited."},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back I posted some views from the Old Cabra Road bridge where an Irish Rail ICR arrived on scene and partially blocked my view of the ever elusive spoil train. (See: Are Two Trains Better than One<\/a>?)<\/p>\n

Just to clarify the significance of that event: Irish Rail ICRs (Intercity railcars) are the standard passenger train on most routes in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, a public App for your smart phone will alert you where these trains are running most of the time. Finding an ICR on the move is easily accomplished.<\/p>\n

By contrast, the spoil train is difficult to find, even for veteran observers. It doesn\u2019t run often, rarely has a rigid path, and tends run off path even when given one. It doesn\u2019t appear on an App, which makes it even harder to find.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a ghost train\u00a0and\u00a0I\u2019ve missed it more times than I\u2019ve managed to picture it.<\/p>\n

Colm O\u2019Callaghan and I scored views of the spoil train from Old Cabra road a few days ago. This was one of my favorite from the sequence.<\/p>\n

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Exposed digitally using my FujiFilm X-T1 with 90mm f2.0 prime lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Persistence and patience are the lessons for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back I posted some views from the Old Cabra Road bridge where an Irish Rail ICR arrived on scene and partially blocked my view of the ever elusive spoil train. (See: Are Two Trains Better than One?) Just to clarify the significance of that event: Irish Rail ICRs (Intercity railcars) are the … Continue reading Irish Rail at Cabra; Spoil revisited.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18334,"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":true,"_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":[48],"tags":[4111,4153,21,2479],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Irish_Rail-Spoil_train_at_Old_Cabra_Road_DSCF2582.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4LJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335"}],"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=18335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18351,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions\/18351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}