{"id":28019,"date":"2019-10-30T05:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T09:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28019"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:35:12","slug":"great-northern-railway-compound-at-laytown-viaduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/great-northern-railway-compound-at-laytown-viaduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Northern Railway Compound at Laytown Viaduct."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"28020\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/great-northern-railway-compound-at-laytown-viaduct\/rpsi_85_at_laytown_viaduct_briansolomon_dscf5745\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?fit=3000%2C2000\" data-orig-size=\"3000,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&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=\"RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, 26 October 2019, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland ran a series of trips using Great Northern Railway (Ireland) compound 4-4-0 number 85. on old home rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This presented ideal opportunities for photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too often steam locomotives are operated mid-day in high light, which present poor conditions for photography. Saturday\u2019s trips benefitted from low late October sun and cool conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I set up at Laytown where late afternoon sun illuminated the viaduct over an Irish Sea estuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clouds were a nuisance, with dark shadows covering the scene until moments before the locomotive charged northward across the bridge toward Drogheda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed this view using my FujiFilm XT1 with 27mm pancake lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to everyone at Irish Rail and RPSI for making Saturday&#8217;s steam trips a success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamtrainsireland.com\">https:\/\/www.steamtrainsireland.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#219bcf;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 26 October 2019, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland ran a series of trips using Great Northern Railway (Ireland) compound 4-4-0 number 85. on old home rails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28020,"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":[10,48],"tags":[4329,4885,4328,4585,5215,7535,64],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RPSI_85_at_Laytown_Viaduct_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSCF5745.jpg?fit=3000%2C2000","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7hV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28019"}],"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=28019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28022,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28019\/revisions\/28022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}