{"id":35456,"date":"2023-02-15T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35456"},"modified":"2023-02-14T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T02:29:21","slug":"25-years-ago-at-limerick-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/25-years-ago-at-limerick-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years Ago at Limerick Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made my first trip to Ireland in February 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After landing at Farranfore, I spent a week in Tralee, then another driving around the West in a hired Citroen Saxo, before enbarking on a rail journey at Limerick for Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was argueably the<\/em> most significant train trip of my adult life. I never intended to visit Dublin. But upon arrival there, I realized that I’d found a special place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of Dublin lay in my future. For more than 20 years, I rented apartments in Dublin. And the city was my conceptual office and research library where I wrote many of my books and as used base to travel around Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1998 and 2019, I made tens of thousands of photographs documenting Irish railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made this view of the Limerick – Limerick Junction shuttle with 121-class number 128 while waiting for the Up Cork that would whisk me toward Dublin (although, I actually disembarked at Kildare to change to a local train consisting 2600 railcars). Exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon F3T using a non-AI f2.8 135mm Nikkor telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light Looks Back!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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