{"id":9923,"date":"2015-02-12T02:38:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2015-02-07T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T13:44:17","slug":"carrick-on-suir-march-22-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/carrick-on-suir-march-22-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrick-on-Suir, March 22, 2008."},"content":{"rendered":"

Among my favorite stations on the far flung Irish Rail network was Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. The combination of a rural atmosphere with an interesting track layout and unusual curvature, high signal cabin (tower) with mechanical semaphores plus its\u00a0reputation for friendly staff, made it an ideal place to spend an afternoon.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve probably made fifty or more trips to Carrick over the years. While, I often timed my visits to coincide with the arrival of freight trains, on this day I photographed the scheduled crossing (meeting) of 2700-series railcars working between Waterford and Limerick Junction.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia 100 with a Canon EOS 3 with 50mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a scene never to be repeated. The 2700s have been withdrawn and the passing loop (passing siding) at Carrick was lifted (torn up).<\/p>\n

Sometimes it is the most common everyday scenes that ultimately make for the rarest and most interesting photographs. Is there some everyday railway activity in your life that has gone undocumented?<\/p>\n

Brian Solomon will be presenting a illustrated talk\u00a0to the Irish Railway Record Society in Dublin on Thursday February 12th<\/sup> at 7:30pm.This is titled \u00a0Ireland in Colour, Bo-Bo\u2019s, Rail Freight and Signal Cabins<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Among my favorite stations on the far flung Irish Rail network was Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. The combination of a rural atmosphere with an interesting track layout and unusual curvature, high signal cabin (tower) with mechanical semaphores plus its\u00a0reputation for friendly staff, made it an ideal place to spend an afternoon. I\u2019ve probably made fifty or … Continue reading Carrick-on-Suir, March 22, 2008.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9921,"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":[10,48],"tags":[947,182,20,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Carrick-on-Suir_22Mar2008_Brian_Solomon_193162.jpg?fit=750%2C483","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923"}],"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=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions\/9925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}