{"id":39899,"date":"2024-08-30T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39899"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:49:59","slug":"blackrock-august-30-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/blackrock-august-30-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackrock-August 30, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Dublin &amp; Kingstown was among the oldest railways in the world. This opened between its name sake points in 1834 and is considered the first steam railway in Ireland. The route is now part of Irish Rail&#8217;s network and was electrified in the early 1980s for the DART suburban service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 30, 2016, I&#8217;d traveled from Dublin to Blackrock on the DART electrified suburban service to meet my friends. Working with my Fuji XT-1, I made this trailing photo from the footbridge on the south side of the station of a northward 29000-series CAF diesel railcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"39900\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/blackrock-august-30-2016\/irish_rail_29000_railcar_at_blackrock_dscf3675\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?fit=1700%2C1133\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1133\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?w=1700 1700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Irish_Rail_29000_railcar_at_Blackrock_DSCF3675.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Every Day<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dublin &#038; Kingstown is among the oldest railways in the world. 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