{"id":41134,"date":"2025-02-10T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41134"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T01:52:05","slug":"new-train-old-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-train-old-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Train; old Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In April 2007, standing on the road bridge east of Limerick Junction, I framed one of Irish Rail’s relatively new Mark4 trains with an antique rod-operated mechanical semaphore. The Mark4 driving trailer was leading the train with an Enterprise painted Class 201 diesel at the back of the set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mark4 train set entered service in 2006, while the signal was retired in late 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was exposed on Fujichrome film using a Nikon F3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I scanned the slide with a Nikon LS5000 slide scanner powered by VueScan 98.4.2 software. This enabled me to make a multiple pass scan to maximize data capture. I then conducted final processing of the TIF file using Adobe Lightroom to better balance color, exposure and contrast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I like the technological contrast of this photo: in 2007 one of Irish Rail’s relatively new Mark4 trains passes an antique rod-operated mechanical semaphore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41135,"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":[5050,6652,8206,7010],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Irish_Rail_Mark4_driving_trailer_uproad_at_Limerick_Jct_with_semaphores_April2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122707.jpg?fit=1491%2C2048","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aHs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41134"}],"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=41134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41137,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41134\/revisions\/41137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}