{"id":4162,"date":"2013-10-17T05:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2013-10-17T05:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:59:20","slug":"bord-na-mona-lanesborough-october-2013-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bord-na-mona-lanesborough-october-2013-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bord na Mona, Lanesborough, October 2013\u2014Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nClose Ups, Details and Alternate Views: A Look Beyond the Obvious.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

While photographing Ireland\u2019s Bord na Mona narrow gauge last week, I was looking for different angles. I\u2019ve made nearly a dozen trips to the Bord na Mona in the last year and I wanted to capture the essence of the operation up close.<\/p>\n

\"Bord<\/a>
Link and pin coupler between track panel bogies. Lumix LX3. Notice the photographer’s shadow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a gloss free industrial railway. It\u2019s like a big beat-up tin plate train set that has seen lots of use, and doesn\u2019t adhere to prototype railroading in any normal conventions.<\/p>\n

Tracks are laid down here and there. Curvature is very tight, in many places there\u2019s no ballast. Junctions appear with little notice. And the trains bounce along at a grinding amble.<\/p>\n

\"Points.<\/a>
Points. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bord<\/a>
Level crossing warning. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bord<\/a>
Track panel train. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Track<\/a>
Track panels and panel train. Reminds me of Lionel or American Flyer. Somewhere out in the bog must be the world’s largest Christmas tree! Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bog<\/a>
Bog tracks. Lumix LX3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Photographing<\/a>
Fellow photographer documenting \u00a0an empty train near Derraghan Cross. Lumix LX3 photo by Brian Solomon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bord<\/a>
Tight telephoto view of an empty train scuttling along behind a Wagon Master locomotive. Canon 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A cow observes an empty train. Lumix LX3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See previous posts for more views on the Bord na Mona:<\/p>\n

Bord na Mona, Lanesborough, October 2013\u2014Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

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Close Ups, Details and Alternate Views: A Look Beyond the Obvious. While photographing Ireland\u2019s Bord na Mona narrow gauge last week, I was looking for different angles. I\u2019ve made nearly a dozen trips to the Bord na Mona in the last year and I wanted to capture the essence of the operation up close. This … Continue reading Bord na Mona, Lanesborough, October 2013\u2014Part 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[3786,318,1464,7535,20,1456,1169,1463,38,425,1462,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-158","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162"}],"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=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}