{"id":32484,"date":"2021-12-16T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32484"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T03:07:50","slug":"wicklow-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wicklow-silhouette\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 3 April 2002, I traveled from Dublin to County Wexford on the morning train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend and fellow railroad photographer, Hassard Stacpoole, and I were headed to Wexford town to intercept one of the last bag cement trains that was being unloaded there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once common, by mid-2002 Irish Rail&#8217;s bag cement runs were on the wain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Wicklow, our train paused in the loop to cross an up passenger train on the Dublin &amp; Southeastern route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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