{"id":26452,"date":"2019-04-24T04:29:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T08:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26452"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:58:51","slug":"blue-locomotive-and-semaphores-carrick-on-suir-county-tipperary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/blue-locomotive-and-semaphores-carrick-on-suir-county-tipperary\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Locomotive and Semaphores: Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Just <\/em>a light engine running toward Waterford to collect a laden sugarbeet train.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except the light engine was NI Railways 112, a northern engine that had wandered far and wide on Irish Rail in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the setting was Carrick-on-Suir where mechanical signaling and an antique track arrangement had survived. The date was 11 December 2004. 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