{"id":43890,"date":"2026-03-24T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:16:51","slug":"dart-at-blackrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dart-at-blackrock\/","title":{"rendered":"DART at Blackrock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a bright sunny afternoon in County Dublin’s Blackrock Park on 18 May 2004, when I photographed a Bray-bound Dublin Area Rapid Transit train gliding along on the 1834-built Dublin & Kingstown line\u2014often described as the world’s first suburban railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuji Sensia in my old Contax G2 rangefinder was a classic camera\/film combination that I employed to make countless successful photos in Ireland and across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light Explores Railway Photography Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuji Sensia in my old Contax G2 rangefinder was a classic camera\/film combination that I employed to make countless successful photos in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43891,"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":[3784,8587,8588,5052,1452],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Irish_Rail_8600_DART_Blackrock_Dublin_18May2004_Brian-Solomon-891832.jpg?fit=2048%2C1350","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bpU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890"}],"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=43890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43892,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions\/43892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}