{"id":1681,"date":"2010-08-09T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:10:52","slug":"photo-of-the-week-118-no-186-steaming-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2010\/08\/09\/photo-of-the-week-118-no-186-steaming-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 129 &#8211; No. 186 Steaming West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s been a while since I posted a railway shot in this Photo of the Week series, I thought I&#8217;d treat myself by posting my favourite steam shot of the year (so far). I chose this location precisely because it&#8217;s free from modern distractions. There are no modern houses, no electricity pylons, no modern signals, no modern electronics cabinets, in short, nothing to break the illusion of timelessness. OK &#8211; that&#8217;s not entirely true. Those of you with a very keen eye will notice the one unavoidable piece of modernity in this shot &#8211; the track itself &#8211; it&#8217;s continuous welded rail on concrete sleepers. You can rest assured that when No.186 was earning it&#8217;s keep for the Great Southern &#038; Western Railway it wasn&#8217;t running on anything nearly as fancy, smooth, or comfortable! Still &#8211; very few people will find the modern track-work a distraction from the timeless beauty of a steam engine hard at work.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in such details, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpsi-online.org\/locomotives\/loco186.htm\" target=\"_blank\">RPSI preserved steam loco number 186<\/a>. She&#8217;s a class J15 0-6-0 former GS&#038;WR loco, manufactured in Manchester in 1879, and retained in service until 1964. Here we see her on a cold, windy, and rather damp Easter Monday morning near Kilcock Co. Kildare, working the <em>Easter Egg-spress<\/em> from Dublin to Mullingar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC_3946_TopazAdjust_2010-08-09.jpg\" alt=\"RPSI No.186 Steaming West\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"475\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4519464958\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4519464958\/sizes\/o\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/640 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 55mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/5.6<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 800<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Full Manual<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing:<\/strong> This shot was first tweaked using the Topaz Adjust plugin in Photoshop Elements 8, then converted to monochrome using the Monochrome Mixer in aperture, and then give a subtle sepia tone using the Colour Monochrome brick in Aperture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s been a while since I posted a railway shot in this Photo of the Week series, I thought I&#8217;d treat myself by posting my favourite steam shot of the year (so far). I chose this location precisely because it&#8217;s free from modern distractions. There are no modern houses, no electricity pylons, no modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[31,326,35,244,28,249,54],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-ireland","tag-kilcock","tag-kildare","tag-monochrome","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-rpsi","tag-train"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-r7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}