{"id":23118,"date":"2018-12-13T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23118"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:42:04","slug":"thomastown-cabin-at-dusk-on-this-day-15-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/thomastown-cabin-at-dusk-on-this-day-15-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomastown Cabin at Dusk\u2014On this Day 15 Years Ago."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23119\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/thomastown-cabin-at-dusk-on-this-day-15-years-ago\/irish_rail_thomastown_cabin_on_waterford_line_13dec2003_briansolomon_592466\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?fit=3506%2C2282\" data-orig-size=\"3506,2282\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1544707581&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_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?fit=709%2C461\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?fit=474%2C308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?fit=474%2C308\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23119\" width=\"1753\" height=\"1141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?w=3506 3506w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?resize=205%2C133 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?resize=709%2C461 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?resize=1022%2C665 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Irish_Rail_Thomastown_Cabin_on_Waterford_line_13Dec2003_\u00a9BrianSolomon_592466.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was on a damp evening 15 years ago (13 December 2003), that I exposed this 35mm Fujichrome Sensia II slide using my Contax G2 rangefinder with 45mm Zeiss lens at Irish Rail\u2019s station in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, Irish Rail was operating its sugarbeet trains via Thomastown and Cherryville Junction owing to bridge collapse at Cahir, County Tipperary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always liked the rich atmosphere of this slide which conveys an era now gone. Irish Rail closed the cabin at Thomastown \u00a0a few months later and removed the Thomastown loop when it commissioned the Waterford Mini CTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Brian Solomon&#8217;s Tracking the Light Posts new material EVERY day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always liked the rich atmosphere of this slide which conveys an era now gone. 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