{"id":5166,"date":"2014-01-15T05:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T10:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:27:11","slug":"daily-post-timber-and-general-motors-june-10-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-timber-and-general-motors-june-10-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Timber and General Motors, June 10, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This pair of images will never be repeated. Here we have Irish Rail\u2019s afternoon passenger to Dublin consisting of\u00a0 Mark 3 set led class 201 number 222 (known colloquially as the \u2018Bishop Tutu\u2019).\u00a0 That same afternoon, at about 3:40pm an empty timber with a mixed pair of 121\/141s arrived from Waterford.<\/p>\n

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The afternoon Westport-Dublin passenger is ready to depart Westport on June 10, 2006. Nikon F3 with Nikkor f2.8 24mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Irish Rail 146 and 134 arrive at Westport with an Empty Timber from Waterford on June 10, 2006. Nikon F3 with Nikkor f2.8 24mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What was unusual that day was an electrical power cut had required the use of portable generators at the station, making for an unusual discordant cacophony at the normally peaceful location.<\/p>\n

Despite the racket, I went about making photographs. Here, I carefully composed both views from the footbridge by the signal cabin using the same angle to show the contrasting trains in the classic scene. It was the end of an era. Soon all would change.<\/p>\n

Since that time, Irish Rail has retired the small General Motors diesels. The 121s made their final runs in 2008, the 141s finished a couple of years later. The Mark III passenger carriages were withdrawn from traffic; today passenger trains to Westport run with Irish Rail\u2019s Rotem-built 22000-series railcars.<\/p>\n

I exposed both photos on Fujichrome with my Nikon F3 fitted with a 1960s vintage Nikkor f2.8 24mm lens.<\/p>\n

I returned to Dublin on the evening passenger train, also with Mark 3s and a 201 class General Motors diesel.<\/p>\n

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Westport, County Mayo, Ireland. This pair of images will never be repeated. Here we have Irish Rail\u2019s afternoon passenger to Dublin consisting of\u00a0 Mark 3 set led class 201 number 222 (known colloquially as the \u2018Bishop Tutu\u2019).\u00a0 That same afternoon, at about 3:40pm an empty timber with a mixed pair of 121\/141s arrived from Waterford. … Continue reading DAILY POST: Timber and General Motors, June 10, 2006<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4537,1863,1864,940,1753,1862,19,43,7535,342,182,20,21,432,45,351,7,546,945,637],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Irish_Rail_empty_Timber_at_Westport_10Jun2006_Brian_Solomon_235110.jpg?fit=800%2C539","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166"}],"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=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}