{"id":30739,"date":"2021-02-19T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30739"},"modified":"2021-02-19T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:36:18","slug":"empty-branch-train-may-20-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/empty-branch-train-may-20-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Branch Train\u2014May 20, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a lovely Spring morning in Claremorris, County Mayo, when I made this telephoto trailing view of the empty Irish Rail Ballina Branch train approaching the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding a &#8216;mixed pair&#8217; of 121\/181 diesels on the passenger train was a rare event by 2006, and certainly worthy of my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irish Rail 075 that had been assigned to work the branch passenger train had failed at Ballina day or two previously, and the older EMDs were borrowed from their freight assignment to fill in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed this Fujichrome slide using my Nikon F3 with a short telephoto, probably a 105mm, from the road bridge west of the Claremorris Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"307\" data-attachment-id=\"30740\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/empty-branch-train-may-20-2006\/irish_rail_124184_approach_claremorris_with_ety_branch_train_20may2006briansolomon_522926-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?fit=2000%2C1294\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1294\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?fit=709%2C459\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?fit=474%2C307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?resize=474%2C307\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C661 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?resize=709%2C459 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?resize=205%2C133 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C994 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Irish_Rail_124184_approach_Claremorris_with_ety_Branch_train_20May2006\u00a9BrianSolomon_522926-2.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Irish Rail 124 and 184 lead the Ballina Branch train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I scanned the slide last night using an Epson V600 flatbed scanner set to 3200 dpi. 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