{"id":35550,"date":"2023-03-02T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35550"},"modified":"2023-03-01T21:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T02:49:53","slug":"bord-na-mona-march-2-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bord-na-mona-march-2-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Bord na Mona-March 2, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This day ten years ago, photographer Denis McCabe and I traveled to Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland to photograph the Bord na Mona (Irish Peat Board) three foot gauge industrial railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system around Lanesborough was the most charming and photogenic of the larger Bord na Mona operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 2, 2013, the weather was suitably Irish; misty, cool and damp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made these images using a Lumix LX3 pocket digital camera. 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