Part four of my five post 2012 photo recap – and this one will cover the last three months of the year. But wait, if this covers the last three months, what will the fifth installment include? If you recall in my first recap post (here), I mentioned the last […]
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On the 19th as you probably saw here I was presenting a slideshow up at the Amherst Railway Society’s October meeting. I decided to take the entire day off instead of rushing out of work and heading north. So I took that opportunity to do a little work around the […]
Still catching up on things here on the old blog. Here’s some stuff from back in the middle of August where I spent a bit of time up in Palmer, MA. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to head up there, but as things worked out it went rather well overall.
Snowbirds – the term used for people who live here in the north and “migrate” south to Florida in the winters. As some of you may know, a pair of Florida East Coast Railway GP40s have been leased to the New England Central Railroad, and are making their way up […]
On January 31st, Bob LaMay and I made our annual trek to the Mystic Valley Railway Society’s 2010 Calendar Judging Luncheon up in Dedham, MA. Like each year before, we brought our cameras along and did a bit of railfanning before and after the luncheon. The only downside of the […]
As most of you know, ABC’s Good Morning America had put together, along with Amtrak, a special Whistle Stop Tour 2008 as a part of this year’s presidential election season. The train made its first “live” move (“live” is in quotes because they were taping segments for airing in today’s […]
Today was my 39th birthday. So to celebrate, I took the day off from work. For the first part of the day I chased Providence & Worcester train NR-2 from Lisbon to Groton, CT. Then I went home for a while. Then I decided to head out again, this time […]
Tom Mik, & I have been meaning to get together for a little railfanning & photography for a while, but our schedules never meshed. March 10th, however, things fell into place. So in the light of Pan Am Railway’s announcement that they’d be repainting 20 locomotives into the new blue […]
Well, we decided to pile the kids in the car and go for a drive since it was a nice day. As luck would have it, we found ourselves heading northbound on Route 32 heading for the CT/MA line – right where we’d find New England Central trains 608 and […]