{"id":25978,"date":"2019-03-27T04:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=25978"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:15:49","slug":"elusive-raccoon-leads-the-rpsi-cravens-transfer-at-the-gullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/elusive-raccoon-leads-the-rpsi-cravens-transfer-at-the-gullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive \u2018Raccoon\u2019 leads the RPSI Cravens Transfer at the Gullet."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25979\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/elusive-raccoon-leads-the-rpsi-cravens-transfer-at-the-gullet\/irish_rail_233_w_rpsi_transfer_at_memorial_road_dublin_dscf3538\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1552905279&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;90&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25979\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?w=4896 4896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3538.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>I made this photo on the morning of 18 March 2019 using my FujiFilm XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll admit that if you\u2019re not closely familiar with Irish Rail\u2019s Dublin operations my title to today\u2019s Tracking the Light post might seem cryptic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the Irish Rail 201 class General Motors diesels, 231 and 233, are painted in a minimalist silver, black and yellow livery. These are colloquially known in the enthusiast community as \u2018raccoons\u2019 (or \u2018badgers\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engine number 233 has been shy lately and rarely seen out on the mainline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RPSI stands for the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RPSI owns an historic set of Cravens-built passenger carriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are stored\/maintained at Irish Rail\u2019s Inchicore works (repair shops), and when they are required for an excursion, Irish Rail makes a transfer run across Dublin to deliver them to Connolly station for boarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The graded three-track line from Islandbridge Junction to Inchicore runs through a cutting along Con Colbert Road known as \u2018the Gullet\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I\u2019ve covered most of this previously, I figure it doesn\u2019t hurt to review the esoteric every so often to avoid confusion.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light is on Auto Pilot while Brian is Traveling.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graded three-track line from Islandbridge Junction to Inchicore runs through a cutting along Con Colbert Road known as \u2018the Gullet\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25980,"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":[4537,897,19,3463,21,64],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Irish_Rail_233_w_RPSI_transfer_at_Memorial_Road_Dublin_DSCF3537.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6L0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978"}],"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=25978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25981,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions\/25981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}