This past Saturday was Lebanon, CT’s annual Independence Day fireworks display. It’s usually the Sunday before the 4th of July – this year it was on June 28th. Of course, the camera & tripod came along for the evening’s festivities.
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Intentions and reality do sometimes diverge, and today was one of those times. I was able to head out at my normal time to try to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south through Ledyard. Well, as you can tell by the title of this post, that didn’t happen. […]
Another hazy, hot & humid day today. But a gap in the schedule gave me a chance to head out and hopefully catch some rail action, and possibly some blue skies peeking through the clouds. Well, I ended up with both, along with a lumber ship at the New London […]
Well, a gap in my schedule this morning let me get out for a bit into the hot & hazy morning. In the short time I was out, I caught a pair of Amtraks (one regional and one Acela), New England Central train NERWNE and Providence & Worcester train NR-2. […]
And now for part two of my coverage of the Thames River drawbridge swap out. Obviously I missed the actual swap, but I did get down to Groton the day after the span was changed. But I did get a little bonus – I caught the old span being towed […]
Ahhh, finally caught up. Well, almost. Before our trip to Hershey, PA this past Tuesday, I was able to head down to Groton to get a few shots of the drawbridge as the contractors were preparing to pull the old bascule span out. Unfortunatley, it took them longer to pull […]
Ahhh, finally approaching current times. The 23rd was a foggy morning, and I was able to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 at the USS Nautilus overlook park and crossing the Thames River drawbridge. As it turned out, this was the last NR-2 to cross over the old drawbridge span […]
To quote John Cleese in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and now for something completely different. A friend of mine won skybox tickets to a New England Defenders game at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, where they were playing cross-state rivals the New Britain Rock Cats. So of course I took him […]
OK, still chipping away at the backlog. Three more posts including this one before the Thames River drawbridge swap. So without further adieu, here’s one from June 19th – I was able to catch New England Central train NERWNE, Providence & Worcester train NR-2, Amtrak trains 171 (regional) and 2150 […]
Second catchup post. Beautiful blue skies and the Providence & Worcester back on the 18th, so I couldn’t pass it up. Short version is this – I caught NR-2 at Mill Cove, crossing the Thames River and rolling through New London under the sunny skies.