{"id":38758,"date":"2024-04-05T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38758"},"modified":"2024-04-05T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:07:45","slug":"the-elusive-timber-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-elusive-timber-train\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elusive Timber Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Irish rail freight is comparatively scarce today compared to my visits years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While visiting county Mayo, I&#8217;d hoped to catch one of the several freights that still routinely grace the rails there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the advice of an old friend at Irish Rail, Kris and I paid our second visit to Manulla Junction on a rainy Monday March morning. After passage of the morning Dublin-Westport passenger train, we caught the once-per-week Ballina-Waterford timber train led by class 071 locomotive number 074.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed these photos of the train as it squealed through the junction. It was like old times again! The sound of the turbocharged 12-645 roaring away brought me back many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;:\n\t\t\t\t{ &quot;image&quot;:\n\t\t\t\t\t{   &quot;imageLoaded&quot;: false,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;initialized&quot;: false,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;lightboxEnabled&quot;: false,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;hideAnimationEnabled&quot;: false,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;preloadInitialized&quot;: false,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;lightboxAnimation&quot;: &quot;zoom&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;imageUploadedSrc&quot;: &quot;http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Irish_Rail_Westport_ICR_at_Manulla_Junc_DSC_8681.jpg&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;imageCurrentSrc&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;targetWidth&quot;: &quot;1800&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;targetHeight&quot;: &quot;1372&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;scaleAttr&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;dialogLabel&quot;: &quot;Enlarged image&quot;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\" data-wp-interactive 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