Empty Beet on the Barrow Bridge:
Empty Beet on the Barrow Bridge:
On December 28, 2005, toward the end of Irish Rail’s final beet season, I stood on the western shore of the Barrow, where I aimed a Nikon F3 with 180mm f2.8 lens loaded with Fujichrome toward the multiple span Pratt truss that crosses the river. NI Railways 112 (on loan to Irish Rail) worked east across the span at about 5mph with a train of four-wheel empty beet wagons. Last night I scanned…
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