{"id":21699,"date":"2018-07-21T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T12:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21699"},"modified":"2018-07-21T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:39:59","slug":"irish-rail-218-sunny-days-and-cloudy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-218-sunny-days-and-cloudy-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail 218\u2014Sunny Days and Cloudy Days."},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Irish Rail 218 is a versatile machine as shown in the three views exposed over the years near Heuston Station.<\/p>\n

In recent years, 218 has often worked the Dublin-Cork Mark 4 passenger sets, as well as liner freights and performed the occasion stint in permanent way service.<\/p>\n

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Irish 218 is ready to head down road at Heuston Station in Dublin in summer 2000. It’s along side 204 and 233. Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia II (100 ISO) using a Nikon N90S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On 11 September 2016\u201415 years after the infamous day\u2014Irish Rail 218 works a Mark 4 set toward Cork. This view is from my often utilized location at Islandbridge Junction. Exposed as a RAW file with my FujiFilm XT1 and adjusted for contrast in Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cloudy days yield opportunities too! On 27 February 2018 Irish Rail 218\u2014 now displaying its modified long number\u2014leads a panel train into Dublin’s Phoenix Park tunnel. The next day \u00a0snow blanketed \u00a0Dublin and surrounding areas causing travel chaos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of the 201 class locomotives, 218 is another machine that ranks with numerous photos in my collection.<\/p>\n

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Old Irish Rail 218 is a versatile machine as shown in the three views exposed over the years near Heuston Station. In recent years, 218 has often worked the Dublin-Cork Mark 4 passenger sets, as well as liner freights and performed the occasion stint in permanent way service. Of the 201 class locomotives, 218 is … Continue reading Irish Rail 218\u2014Sunny Days and Cloudy Days.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21701,"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":[4821,2669,1363,19,342,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Irish_Rail_218_w_Mk4_at_Islandbridge_Jct_DSCF4020.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5DZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21699"}],"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=21699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21715,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21699\/revisions\/21715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}