{"id":25935,"date":"2019-03-21T06:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2019-03-21T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T10:10:09","slug":"irish-rails-grand-canal-docks-at-night-and-the-sperry-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rails-grand-canal-docks-at-night-and-the-sperry-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail\u2019s Grand Canal Docks at Night and the Sperry Train."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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\u2014Some nocturnal views of Dublin suburban operations\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working in the gloom of night has its challenges and benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s especially challenging when the camera I intended to make film photos was suffering from a flat battery, again (so I thought). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my Nikon F3s was again showing signs of no electricity. Changing out the batteries on an railcar, I began to suspect something else . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, last week Paul Maguire, Jay Monaghan and I arrived at Pearse Station as a potential location to picture Irish Rail\u2019s Sperry train that was making its run to Bray to inspect rail conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided to try the next station down the line, and traveled on a DART electric train to Grand Canal Docks. With my Nikon dead in the water, I opted to work with my Lumix LX7 and FujiFilm digital cameras instead. This changed my perspective as I\u2019d hope to make black & white film photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grand Canal Docks viewed from Irish Rail’s station of the same name. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DART at Grand Canal Docks. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Irish Rail 29000 series CAF-built diesel train. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Howth-bound DART at Grand Canal Docks, FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Irish Rail 086 leads the Sperry detection train at Grand Canal docks. FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm f2.0 prime telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we waited on the platforms for the Sperry train. I made photos of the DART and suburban diesel railcars, which dominate operations on this route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diesel haulage is the attraction of the elusive Sperry train; and on this evening Irish Rail 086 did the honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh yeah, about the F3T\u2019s battery problem. Later, I discovered that the plastic cartridge that holds the batteries appeared to have developed a short. Luckily, I have a spare F3 and swapped out the cartridge solving this difficulty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diesel haulage is the attraction of the elusive Sperry train; and on this evening Irish Rail 086 did the honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[5471,4143,19,21,1066],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_DART_Grand_Canal_Docks_P1060528.jpg?fit=1287%2C965","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6Kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935"}],"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=25935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25941,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions\/25941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}