{"id":20554,"date":"2018-03-09T04:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20554"},"modified":"2018-03-06T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:56:40","slug":"class-201-retrospective-irish-rail-class-leader-locomotive-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/class-201-retrospective-irish-rail-class-leader-locomotive-201\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 201 Retrospective: Irish Rail Class Leader Locomotive 201"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark my twenty years photographing Irish Railways, I thought it would be a neat exercise to display images of each of the 201-class General Motors diesels in numerical order. I\u2019ll intersperse these posts with other Tracking the Light features.<\/p>\n

Today, I\u2019m beginning with the class leader. This engine famously arrived in Ireland in a Russian-built cargo plane.<\/p>\n

That event was before my time in Ireland, but I made hundreds of photos of engine 201 around Ireland before it was withdrawn from traffic and stored at Inchicore.<\/p>\n

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On 23 May, 2003, Irish Rail 201 leads a Dublin-Galway train at Athenry. Exposed with a Contax G2 with 28mm lens on Fujichrome Sensia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was on 6 April 2005, that I framed Irish Rail 201 in the bridge arch at Thurles, County Tipperary. Exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon F3 with 180mm Nikkor lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Begin in 2005, Irish Rail began applying a variation of its orange and black livery to the 201s that featured largely yellow ends to make the locomotives more visible. Class 201 works a Rugby special at Cherryville Junction in 2006. Exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon F3 with 180mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next in this series, I\u2019ll feature never before published photos of Irish Rail\u2019s very elusive 202.<\/p>\n

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To mark my twenty years photographing Irish Railways, I thought it would be a neat exercise to display images of each of the 201-class General Motors diesels in numerical order. I\u2019ll intersperse these posts with other Tracking the Light features. Today, I\u2019m beginning with the class leader. This engine famously arrived in Ireland in a … Continue reading Class 201 Retrospective: Irish Rail Class Leader Locomotive 201<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20555,"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":[4588,4537,897,2033,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_201_Athenry_23May2003_Brian-Solomon_337742.jpg?fit=1734%2C1153","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554"}],"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=20554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20556,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554\/revisions\/20556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}