{"id":22112,"date":"2018-09-08T07:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22112"},"modified":"2018-09-07T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:34:23","slug":"irish-rail-079-leads-rpsi-cravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-079-leads-rpsi-cravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail 079 leads RPSI Cravens."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 3 September 2018, Irish Rail 079 worked Railway Preservation Society of Ireland\u2019s preserved Cravens carriages, running as an empty train from Dublin\u2019s Inchicore Works to Connolly station.<\/p>\n<p>This was a scheduled move to position the heritage train for RPSI\u2019s private charter to Killarney, County Kerry with steam locomotive 85 (featured in earlier Tracking the Light Posts).<\/p>\n<p>Working with my FujiFilm XT1 and 90mm lens, I photographed from the north end of Connolly platform 1 &amp; 2.<\/p>\n<p>The train was slightly backlit. To compensate, I made nominal adjustment to the Fuji RAW file to lighten shadows in post processing, then exported as a scaled JPG for internet presentation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22113\" style=\"width: 4896px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22113\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-079-leads-rpsi-cravens\/irish_rail_079_w_rpsi_train_and_dart_at_connolly_station_dscf3297\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" 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_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22113\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?w=4896 4896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish Rail\u2019s Ken Fox is at the throttle of General Motors-built class 071 number 079 approaching Dublin Connolly station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For details about the RPSI and scheduled steam and diesel trips see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamtrainsireland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.steamtrainsireland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Brian Solomon&#8217;s Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 3 September 2018, Irish Rail 079 worked Railway Preservation Society of Ireland\u2019s preserved Cravens carriages, running as an empty train from Dublin\u2019s Inchicore Works to Connolly station. This was a scheduled move to position the heritage train for RPSI\u2019s private charter to Killarney, County Kerry with steam locomotive 85 (featured in earlier Tracking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-079-leads-rpsi-cravens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish Rail 079 leads RPSI Cravens.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22114,"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":[4891,1244,1070,21,64],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_079_w_RPSI_train_and_DART_at_Connolly_Station_DSCF3297-1.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5KE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112"}],"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=22112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22115,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions\/22115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}