{"id":4653,"date":"2013-11-25T05:18:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T10:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2013-11-23T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T13:35:06","slug":"daily-post-irish-rail-wellingtonbridge-county-wexford-december-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-irish-rail-wellingtonbridge-county-wexford-december-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Post: Irish Rail, Wellingtonbridge, County Wexford, December 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Look at the Final Beet Season.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Irish<\/a>
Venerable four wheel beet wagons are fully laden with freshly harvested sugar beet at Wellingtonbridge<\/a> in December 2005. Exposed with Nikon F3T with 180mm lens on Fujichrome<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between September and January Irish Rail<\/a> moved sugar beet from a loading facility at Wellingtonbridge to a processing factory in Mallow county Cork. In the last beet season, six days a week Wellingtonbridge loaded six to seven trains.<\/p>\n

This was Irish Rail\u2019s most intensive freight operation and operated with a fleet of ancient looking four-wheel beet wagons.<\/p>\n

Short sidings at Wellingtonbridge required the shunting of most laden trains. On this frosty clear autumn afternoon, I made a variety of images on Fujichrome with my Nikon F3T to capture the atmosphere of this operation.<\/p>\n

What sticks in my mind were the background sounds of conveyors dumping freshly harvested beet into the old wagons and the signal cabin with its mechanical signals and Victorian-era electric staff machine and bells. The scene is all quiet today.<\/p>\n

\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail locomotive 072 (built by General Motors in La Grange, Illinois.) shunts sugar beet wagons to assemble a train destined for Mallow. The loading equipment is behind the engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail 072 during shunting maneuvers at Wellingtonbridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The short four-wheel wagons made for uniform looking trains. Cross lighting these wagons offered a ‘picket fence’ effect that I’ve always found appealing in railway images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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