{"id":45116,"date":"2026-09-22T07:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=45116"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:06","slug":"bord-na-mona-empties-in-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bord-na-mona-empties-in-the-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Bord na Mona\u2014Empties in the evening."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hazy, bright sunshine prevailed over the Irish Midlands at Corbane, near Ferbane (Co. Offaly) on the evening of August 23, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had been following an empty Bord na M\u00f3na train of peat wagons returning to the bog for reloading. This was a rarely photographed portion of the three-foot-gauge network, and located a considerable distance from the Shannonbridge Generating Station where the peat would be burned for electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This location was uncharacteristic of the Bord na M\u00f3na network that mostly crossed bogland. Here, on higher ground, the line passes through a cutting, where the tiny locomotives would struggle ascending a grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this view with my Canon EOS 7D fitted with an f\/2.8 200mm prime telephoto lens. Last night, I processed the Canon CR2 Raw file using DxO PureRAW 5, then made post-processing cosmetic edits with DxO PhotoLab 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Looks Back!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This location was uncharacteristic of the Bord na M\u00f3na network that mostly crossed bogland. Here, on higher ground, the line passes through a cutting, where the tiny locomotives would struggle ascending a grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[5322,5052,7469],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bJG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116"}],"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=45116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45118,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116\/revisions\/45118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}