There’s lots to do around a tourist railroad to keep things rolling smoothly, both in a mechanical and aesthetic sense. From carpentry, welding, or painting to brush clearing and trackwork – and all of that takes human effort to accomplish. The Valley Railroad, based in Essex, Connecticut is no different. But […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
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Our family vacation brought us to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania this year, and our itinerary included some hiking, Amish culture, brewpubs, pretzels and of course a little touch of railroading. We spent a day around Strasburg, Pennsylvania visiting both the Strasburg Rail Road, as well as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania – […]
August usually brings hot and humid weather to southern New England. Along with that, the month also brings one of the first country fairs of the season – the one in my hometown of Lebanon, Connecticut. On August 12-14, 2016, the 57th Lebanon Country Fair happened – and that weekend […]
The Thames River hosts a variety of marine traffic, including recreational, commercial and military. The river is home to a few active military related sites including the US Coast Guard Academy and the Electric Boat shipyard, manufacturer of US Navy submarines, but also hosts the US Navy Submarine Base – home […]
We’ll go back a couple months for this post – back to the start of June, where I headed over to the Valley Railroad shop in Essex, Connecticut over lunch. Why would I head there over lunch? Well, I received word that there was some activity on No. 97 – […]
The saying goes, there’s a first for everything. It can be the first time you use a piece of equipment, in my case the first time I used a new camera body, or the first time photographing a piece of railroad equipment, or even the first time something ran on […]
Weather forecasts were calling for high temperatures approaching the 90s, coupled with fairly high humidity for Saturday July 30, 2016 – a pretty normal occurrence for mid-summer in southern New England. Instead of seeking out the comfort of an air conditioned space, I headed out to do a little shooting – in an […]