{"id":24003,"date":"2019-02-20T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=24003"},"modified":"2019-02-20T04:15:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:15:39","slug":"irish-narrow-gauge-on-the-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-narrow-gauge-on-the-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Narrow Gauge on the Roll!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>Last Friday, Denis McCabe, Stephen Hirsch and I paid a visit to\u00a0Bord na Mona\u2019s (Peat Board) three-foot gauge industrial railway feeding the Lough Rea Power Station at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.5172222222,-73.2286111111&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=42.5172222222,-73.2286111111%20(Lanesborough%2C%20Massachusetts)&amp;t=h\">Lanesborough<\/a>in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=53.6666666667,-7.75&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=53.6666666667,-7.75%20(County%20Longford)&amp;t=h\">County Longford<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first visit to Lanesborough portion of the extensive Irish Bord na Mona network was back in 2013. This is my favorite Bord na Mona operation for a variety for a reasons. It\u2019s the most accessible by road, by far the most scenic (as bog railways go), and has great variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2013\/10\/16\/bord-na-mona-lanesborough-october-2013-part-1\/\">http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2013\/10\/16\/bord-na-mona-lanesborough-october-2013-part-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, we hit the ground running, finding the elusive ash train on the move at Derraghan More gates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24004\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-narrow-gauge-on-the-roll\/bord_na_mona_ashtrain_derraghan_more_gates_dscf2687\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?fit=1287%2C858\" data-orig-size=\"1287,858\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1550226645&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;90&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24004\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?w=1287 1287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So we were on the trail seeking empty and laden peat trains on the roll. It was a busy day and lots of photographs resulted! Stay tuned . . .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Denis McCabe, Stephen Hirsch and I paid a visit to Bord na Mona\u2019s (Peat Board) three-foot gauge industrial railway feeding the Lough Rea Power Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24004,"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],"tags":[5319,5320,318,1456,1169,1166],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bord_na_Mona_Ashtrain_Derraghan_More_gates_DSCF2687.jpg?fit=1287%2C858","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6f9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003"}],"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=24003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24006,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions\/24006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}