{"id":22223,"date":"2018-09-17T07:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22223"},"modified":"2018-09-17T07:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:14:37","slug":"mainline-steam-rpsi-no-4-at-mosney-16-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mainline-steam-rpsi-no-4-at-mosney-16-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainline Steam: RPSI No.4 at Mosney\u201416 September 2018."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gauzy autumn light is perfect for photographing black steam locomotives on the move.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland operated steam excursions between Dublin, Drogheda and Dundalk. Plans to work with engine 85 were foiled by difficulties with the turntable at Connolly Station.<\/p>\n<p>Instead RPSI engine No.4 did the work.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Maguire and I drove to a remote overhead bridge near Mosney.<\/p>\n<p>I exposed this view using my FujiFilm XT1 with 27mm pancake lens. To make the most of the scene, I imported the RAW file into Lightroom and adjusted it for contrast and saturation, using a digitally applied graduated neutral density filter to bring in sky detail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22224\" style=\"width: 3464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22224\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mainline-steam-rpsi-no-4-at-mosney-16-september-2018\/rpsi_no4_at_mosney_dscf4279\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309\" data-orig-size=\"3464,2309\" 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=\"RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?w=3464 3464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RPSI engine No.4 has a roll-on working north toward Drogheda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Learn more about the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamtrainsireland.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.steamtrainsireland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was preparing this post, Dublin&#8217;s Radio NOVA was talking about the excursion on FM.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tracking the Light Posts Everyday!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauzy autumn light is perfect for photographing black steam locomotives on the move. Yesterday, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland operated steam excursions between Dublin, Drogheda and Dundalk. Plans to work with engine 85 were foiled by difficulties with the turntable at Connolly Station. Instead RPSI engine No.4 did the work. Paul Maguire and I drove &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mainline-steam-rpsi-no-4-at-mosney-16-september-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mainline Steam: RPSI No.4 at Mosney\u201416 September 2018.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22224,"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":[4906,7535,20,3819,63,64,60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RPSI_no4_at_Mosney_DSCF4279.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Mr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223"}],"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=22223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22226,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions\/22226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}