{"id":20517,"date":"2018-03-05T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20517"},"modified":"2018-03-05T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:09:22","slug":"rpsi-driver-training-special-at-laytown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rpsi-driver-training-special-at-laytown\/","title":{"rendered":"RPSI Driver Training Special at Laytown."},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare sunny Sunday in Ireland. It was clear from dawn to dusk.<\/p>\n

Making it extra special was Railway Preservation Society of Ireland\u2019s driver training special using tank engine No. 4 and the preserved Cravens carriages.<\/p>\n

This worked the Northern line between Connolly Station in Dublin and Drogheda.<\/p>\n

I was traveling with William Malone and Honer Travers.<\/p>\n

We decided to visit the viaduct at Laytown, which offers a good place to catch a steam locomotive at work.<\/p>\n

I made this view using my Lumix LX7, but also exposed a sequence of Fujichrome colour slides with my Nikon N90S and 35mm lens. We\u2019ll have to wait to see those.<\/p>\n

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My Lumix LX7 is a nifty tool for making action photos of train. Although a small camera, it has the ability to produce both RAW and JPG files and features a remarkably sharp lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I find that engine number 4 photographs best from a broadside angle. It looks awkward viewed head-on.<\/p>\n

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A rare sunny Sunday in Ireland. It was clear from dawn to dusk. Making it extra special was Railway Preservation Society of Ireland\u2019s driver training special using tank engine No. 4 and the preserved Cravens carriages. This worked the Northern line between Connolly Station in Dublin and Drogheda. I was traveling with William Malone and … Continue reading RPSI Driver Training Special at Laytown.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20516,"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":[10,48],"tags":[4584,4328,4585,4586,20,64,2877],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RPSI_No4_at_Laytown_on_GNR_P1730041.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517"}],"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=20517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20557,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions\/20557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}