{"id":22252,"date":"2018-09-20T05:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22252"},"modified":"2018-09-20T03:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:39:43","slug":"enterprising-the-boyne-or-big-bridge-tiny-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/enterprising-the-boyne-or-big-bridge-tiny-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprising the Boyne or BIG BRIDGE tiny train."},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Rail\u2019s lofty Boyne bridge spanning the river and valley of the historic Boyne at Drogheda poses a visual conundrum.<\/p>\n

This prominent span rises high above Drogheda. It is a very impressive bridge.<\/p>\n

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But it\u2019s difficult to adequately picture a train on it. Feature the bridge; the train is lost. Feature the train; the bridge gets cropped.<\/p>\n

Look up at the bridge; and the train is marginalized.<\/p>\n

Stand back to take in the whole span of the bridge and the train becomes insignificant.<\/p>\n

Place the train at the center of the bridge and it become lost in the iron work.<\/p>\n

Complicating matters, the only regularly scheduled trains with locomotives are the cross-border Belfast-Dublin Enterprise<\/em>services, and on these train the locomotives always face north.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, I made these views of up and down Enterprise<\/em>consists at Drogheda.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail\u2019s lofty Boyne bridge spanning the river and valley of the historic Boyne at Drogheda poses a visual conundrum. This prominent span rises high above Drogheda. It is a very impressive bridge. But it\u2019s difficult to adequately picture a train on it. Feature the bridge; the train is lost. Feature the train; the bridge … Continue reading Enterprising the Boyne or BIG BRIDGE tiny train.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22257,"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":[4910,192,897,2876,2377],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Enterprise_on_Boyne_Viaduct_DSCF4381-2-1.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252"}],"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=22252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22256,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252\/revisions\/22256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}