{"id":30639,"date":"2021-02-01T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30639"},"modified":"2021-02-01T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:09:20","slug":"bogie-beet-reversing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bogie-beet-reversing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogie Beet Reversing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At first glance this view from November 8, 2005, might appear to be an ordinary container train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During its final season carrying sugar beet, Irish Rail took the tops off some 40ft container and fitted them to bogie (8-wheel) flat wagons to haul beet from Wellingtonbridge Co. Wexford to the sugar factory at Mallow, Co. Cork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These unusual freight haulers were known as ‘bogie beet wagons’, since Irish Rail’s traditional beet wagons were rigid-base four wheelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this photograph at dusk, a laden sugar beet freight reverses into Limerick Junction, having just come up the line from Waterford that crosses the Dublin-Cork main line at grade (to the right of the signal cabin). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The locomotive will cut off and run around the train in order to proceed to Mallow. This was necessary because there was no direct chord at the Junction to facilitate a direct move. The lights at left had been installed to make it easier to reverse the train at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I exposed this photo on a tripod using my Contax G2 Rangefinder with 45mm lens using Fujichrome Sensia slide film. I scanned the slide with an Epson V600 flatbed scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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