{"id":22057,"date":"2018-09-02T07:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22057"},"modified":"2018-08-30T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T14:43:41","slug":"irelands-oldest-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irelands-oldest-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Oldest Railway."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dublin & Kingstown commenced operations in 1834. Today, the line is part of Irish Rail\u2019s national network and also hosts Dublin Area Rapid Transit suburban electric trains.<\/p>\n

In August 2018, I exposed this view of the down evening Dublin-Rosslare passenger train approaching Blackrock along the shore of Dublin Bay.<\/p>\n

I like the modern candy-apple green livery that now graces some of Irish Rail 29000-series diesel railcars, and I find that it works especially well in a scene such as this one.<\/p>\n

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To make for a more appealing photograph, I imported the camera RAW into Lightroom and made a few minor adjustments to contrast and color temperature. Among my most important changes was to lighten the shadow areas to more closely represent what we see with our eyes.<\/p>\n

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The Dublin & Kingstown commenced operations in 1834. Today, the line is part of Irish Rail\u2019s national network and also hosts Dublin Area Rapid Transit suburban electric trains. In August 2018, I exposed this view of the down evening Dublin-Rosslare passenger train approaching Blackrock along the shore of Dublin Bay. I like the modern candy-apple … Continue reading Ireland\u2019s Oldest Railway.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22058,"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":[3784,3782,3783,4884,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_to_Rosslare_at_Black_Rock_DSCF2613.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5JL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22057"}],"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=22057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22059,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22057\/revisions\/22059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}