{"id":6711,"date":"2014-06-08T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2014-06-02T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:45:30","slug":"freight-trains-of-the-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/freight-trains-of-the-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight Trains of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering Irish Rail\u2019s Athy Cement.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Ciar\u00e1n Cooney asked me about photos I\u2019d made of Irish Rail\u2019s Athy Cement. This used to run weekdays from the cement factory near Limerick to a cement silo off a short branch that crossed the River Barrow in Athy, County Kildare. It was the only train to use this branch.<\/p>\n

On several occasions, I\u2019d made the effort to photograph this train, which tended to arrive laden in the very early morning, then depart empty after it had discharged. Most of the times I saw it, it ran with a single Bo-Bo General Motors diesel (class 141 or 181).<\/p>\n

I caught it crossing the Barrow at Athy on a fine spring morning, May 3, 2002.<\/p>\n

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Exposed with a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens on Fujichrome Sensia 100 slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That was more than 11 years ago, but it doesn\u2019t seem so long.I think I last photographed this train about 2005, shortly before it was discontinued.\u00a0While cement trains worked Irish Rail for a few more years, they are now extinct.<\/p>\n

Exposed with a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens on Fujichrome Sensia 100 slide film.<\/p>\n

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