{"id":29836,"date":"2020-09-18T07:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29836"},"modified":"2020-09-18T07:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T11:27:37","slug":"irish-rail-164-at-birdhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-164-at-birdhill\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail 164 at Birdhill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a misty April 2000 morning, Mark Hodge and I arrived at Birdhill, County Limerick to photograph the elusive Shale freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bonus was catching the Nenagh Branch passenger train with steam-heated Cravens carriages running from Ballybrophy to Limerick behind Irish Rail 141-class number 164.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I have hundreds of photos of the General Motors Bo-Bo diesels working Irish Rail passenger trains, this was one of the few times I caught number 164 in service on a passenger train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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