{"id":7378,"date":"2014-07-07T02:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T06:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2014-06-28T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T23:42:32","slug":"tracking-the-light-daily-post-mixed-pair-at-ennis-county-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-daily-post-mixed-pair-at-ennis-county-clare\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Daily Post: Mixed Pair at Ennis, County Clare."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dusk, May 18, 2003.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By this date it was unusual to find pairs of small GMs working passenger trains in Ireland. Mixed pairs (dual-cab 141\/181s and\u00a0single-cab class 121s) were even stranger, but not unheard of.<\/p>\n

I was in position on the platform at Ennis to catch the arrival of this Gaelic Athletic League special that ran with 134 and 163 and a set of Mark II carriages. The crew wasted little time in running around the train in preparation for returning the empty train to Limerick.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100 with a Contax G2 Rangefinder fitted with a 28mm Zeiss Biogon lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had only a few minutes to make this image of the locomotives on the Limerick-end of the train before it departed. If you look carefully, you can set a shunter coupling the locomotives to the carriages.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always like the effect of dusk in this image. For me it serves as both a graphic and a symbolic role. However, I\u2019m not completely satisfied with the composition. The orange cone in the foreground is distracting and the radio mast at the far right annoys me.<\/p>\n

As I recall, I didn\u2019t have time to refine my angles. Before I could relocate, the driver sounded the horn, throttled up and was on his way!<\/p>\n

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Dusk, May 18, 2003. By this date it was unusual to find pairs of small GMs working passenger trains in Ireland. Mixed pairs (dual-cab 141\/181s and\u00a0single-cab class 121s) were even stranger, but not unheard of. I was in position on the platform at Ennis to catch the arrival of this Gaelic Athletic League special that … Continue reading Tracking the Light Daily Post: Mixed Pair at Ennis, County Clare.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7375,"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":[4537,2254,2253,20,2255,546],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Irish_Rail_GAA_special_at_Ennis_163_134_18May2003_Brian-Solomon-234338.jpg?fit=700%2C455","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1V0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378"}],"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=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7382,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions\/7382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}