{"id":40771,"date":"2024-12-19T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40771"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:17:14","slug":"just-another-day-at-the-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/just-another-day-at-the-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Another Day at the Junction . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dull winter sky prevailed at Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary on 13 January 2006. Paused at platform 1 was Irish Rail 210 on a Cork-bound set of MarkIII carriages. A sister 201-class sat with a new MarkIV set in the sidings. The Mark IV was the vision of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as I was concerned all of this action was a sideshow to what turned out to be Irish Rail&#8217;s final sugarbeet campaign. In truth, I was waiting for NIR 112 to run around its train to complete the laden beet run from Wellingtonbridge, Co. Wexford to Mallow, Co. Cork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of the sugarbeet was just weeks away, but that is a slide for another day . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"301\" data-attachment-id=\"40772\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/just-another-day-at-the-junction\/irish_rail_210_limerick_jct_co_tipp_13jan2006_briansolomon_537034\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?fit=2048%2C1302\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1302\" 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;1543600131&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_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?fit=709%2C451\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?fit=474%2C301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?resize=474%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?resize=709%2C451 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?resize=1022%2C650 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?resize=205%2C130 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?resize=1536%2C977 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fujichrome exposed using a Nikon F3 with 180mm Nikon lens. My shutter speed was  1\/60th of a second. It really was pretty dull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dull winter sky prevailed on 13 January 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40772,"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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5054,5050,6652,8152,5598],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Irish_Rail_210_Limerick_Jct_Co_Tipp_13Jan2006_\u00a9BrianSolomon_537034.jpg?fit=2048%2C1302","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aBB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40771"}],"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=40771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40778,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40771\/revisions\/40778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}