{"id":30899,"date":"2021-03-23T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30899"},"modified":"2021-03-22T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T03:15:33","slug":"roscrea-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/roscrea-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscrea at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the evening of November 27, 2003, I used my old Contax G2 rangefinder to expose this Fujichrome Sensia color slide of Irish Rail&#8217;s Nenagh Branch train departing Roscrea, County Tipperary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was toward the end of regular locomotive hauled trains on the branch. 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