{"id":28108,"date":"2019-11-10T03:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28108"},"modified":"2019-11-10T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:29:26","slug":"bord-na-mona-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bord-na-mona-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Bord na Mona Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, it was officially announced that Ireland\u2019s Electrical Supply Board (ESB)&nbsp;&nbsp;intends to close the Lough Ree and Shannonbridge power stations at the end of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This doesn\u2019t bode well for the Bord na Mona narrow gauge systems that exist largely to supply these stations with fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of weeks ago on a visit to the Lanesborough system I made this sunset view of an empty train returning to the bog for reloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"710\" data-attachment-id=\"28109\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bord-na-mona-sunset\/bord_na_mona_empty_train_erenagh_near-lanesborough_trailing_view_p1160821\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?fit=2002%2C3000\" data-orig-size=\"2002,3000\" 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=\"Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?fit=473%2C709\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?fit=474%2C710\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?resize=474%2C710\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?resize=682%2C1022 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?resize=100%2C150 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?resize=473%2C709 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?w=2002 2002w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve made dozens of trips over the years to photograph Bord na Mona\u2019s narrow gauge railways. While in recent years, it&#8217;s been understood that these railways were on borrowed time, I still find sad that they will soon be without their primary traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are fascinating and wonderful railways with lots of charm and photographic potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, I hope to continue photographing the systems around Lanesborough and Shannonbridge, as well as some of the other Bord na Mona narrow gauge railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#291acb;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light&nbsp;&nbsp;Posts Daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago on a visit to the Lanesborough system I made this sunset view of an empty train returning to the bog for reloading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28109,"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":[318,20,1165],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bord_na_Mona_empty_train_Erenagh_near-Lanesborough_trailing_view_P1160821.jpg?fit=2002%2C3000","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7jm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28108"}],"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=28108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28111,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28108\/revisions\/28111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}