{"id":34682,"date":"2022-11-01T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34682"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:05:29","slug":"athenry-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/athenry-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"Athenry at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been more than 23 years since my first visit to Athenry, County Galway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that day, my objective was to see an Irish Rail cement train (traffic long gone), and visit the signal cabin (which was then an active block post and interlocking. I was there the day it closed in May 2003.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, on our way back from Maam Cross, Kris and I were delivered by road to Irish Rail’s Athenry station. It was wet and windy. We had a half hour to wait for the evening Galway-Dublin train to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the interval, an Irish Rail 2800-series railcar on its way from Galway to Limerick arrived to make its station stop before changing directions to head down the Western Rail Corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this selection of action photos using my Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera set at high ISO (between 8000 and 12000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This two-piece 2800-series railcar had just arrived from Galway. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Galway-Limerick railcar has the ‘feather’ to take the switch for the Western Rail Corridor toward Ennis and Limerick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The evening Galway-Dublin train approaches Athenry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Last month, on our way back from Maam Cross, Kris and I were delivered by road to Irish Rail’s Athenry station. It was wet and windy. We had a half hour to wait for the evening Galway-Dublin train to arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[7363,5808,5050,7535,20,7536],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Irish_Rail_Galway-Limerick_2800_at_Athenry_Co_Galway_DSC_3044.jpg?fit=1500%2C998","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-91o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34688,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions\/34688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}