{"id":43832,"date":"2026-03-17T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43832"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:12:53","slug":"looking-back-on-a-new-luas-tram-at-red-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/looking-back-on-a-new-luas-tram-at-red-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on a New LUAS Tram at Red Cow."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In honor of the day, I thought I&#8217;d post this view of LUAS tram 3001 at the Red Cow depot. This was exposed in the Spring of 2002 shortly after the car arrived in Ireland and more than two years before it entered traffic on the Red Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that the numbers and other markings have not yet been applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The iconic Alsthom Citadis trams have served Dublin daily since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"307\" data-attachment-id=\"43833\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/looking-back-on-a-new-luas-tram-at-red-cow\/dublin-luas-312\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?fit=2048%2C1326\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1326\" 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;1233653864&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=\"Dublin-LUAS-312\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?fit=709%2C459\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?fit=474%2C307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?resize=474%2C307&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?resize=709%2C459 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?resize=1022%2C662 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?resize=205%2C133 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?resize=1536%2C995 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia II (100 ISO) using my Contax G2 rangefinder with 28mm Zeiss Biogon lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Marks the Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Alsthom Citadis trams have served Dublin daily since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43833,"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":[8570,5053,5310,5311],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dublin-LUAS-312.jpg?fit=2048%2C1326","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-boY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43832"}],"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=43832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43834,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43832\/revisions\/43834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}