{"id":20548,"date":"2018-03-08T05:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20548"},"modified":"2018-03-08T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:06:36","slug":"20-years-in-ireland-irish-rail-class-201-retrospective-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/20-years-in-ireland-irish-rail-class-201-retrospective-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years In Ireland: Irish Rail class 201 Retrospective\u2014Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been exploring and photographing Irish railways since 1998. To mark my twenty years photography, I thought it would be a neat exercise to display images of each of the 201-class General Motors diesels in numerical order.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20547\" style=\"width: 1771px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20547\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish_rail_201s-inchicore_9sept2006a_brian-solomon_337638\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?fit=1771%2C1128\" data-orig-size=\"1771,1128\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian Solomon_337638\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Irish Rail and NIR together have 35 class 201 diesel. This series of posts will feature the locomotives in numerical order, while imaging them in various ways.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?fit=709%2C452\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?fit=474%2C302\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?resize=474%2C302\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?w=1771 1771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?resize=205%2C131 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?resize=709%2C452 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?resize=1022%2C651 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish Rail and NIR together have 34 class 201 diesels. This series of posts will feature the locomotives in numerical order, while imaging them in various ways. Here were have two of the liveries applied to the 201s by Irish Rail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I realise this is a specialised exercise (Americans may substitute \u2018ize\u2019 of \u2018ise\u2019 as required), but I though it would fun.<\/p>\n<p>Originally I was going to do this in 2014, which marked the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the 201-class locomotive in Ireland, but I was foiled by my inability to locate suitable images of locomotive 202! (I went over the derail before leaving the yard, as it were.)<\/p>\n<p>So after some serious closet scouring and sifting though other arrays of old photos resulted my locating of various images of the every elusive Irish Rail 202 (presently stored out of service at Inchicore in Dublin).<\/p>\n<p>Now over the coming weeks, I\u2019ll be making EXTRA posts with images of the 201 in order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tracking the Light EXTRA Post.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been exploring and photographing Irish railways since 1998. To mark my twenty years photography, I thought it would be a neat exercise to display images of each of the 201-class General Motors diesels in numerical order. I realise this is a specialised exercise (Americans may substitute \u2018ize\u2019 of \u2018ise\u2019 as required), but I though &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/20-years-in-ireland-irish-rail-class-201-retrospective-introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 Years In Ireland: Irish Rail class 201 Retrospective\u2014Introduction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20547,"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":[4588,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201s-Inchicore_9Sept2006A_Brian-Solomon_337638.jpg?fit=1771%2C1128","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548"}],"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=20548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20575,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548\/revisions\/20575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}