All because of Earl

As Hurricane Earl was approaching the east coast, the weather-geeks were doing their usual “the sky is falling – go out and buy bread and milk” hype.  Looking at the track of the storm, I figured it would be prudent to change my train home from Friday evening to Saturday sometime.  The way things were looking, the “height” of the storm would be hitting southeastern Connecticut right about when my train would be arriving in New London.  So I pushed it off to Saturday afternoon instead – just in case.  That also gave me a window to head out trackside before I had to get to Newark and catch my train home.  Even though Earl went further out to sea, it was a good thing I changed trains – my train never left Newark Friday night.

Yep, apparently a tree fell across the wires in Waterford, CT, and my train was cancelled.  So the change was a stroke of good fortune – if I had gone to Newark and found out Friday night, I would have been stuck in the station with no room, no rental car, just a bench.  It also gave me a chance to head trackside for a few hours and do a little shooting.  As it turned out, I ended up sticking around the Three Bridges area, shooting mainly NS.  I had hoped to get the Black River & Western heading out of Ringoes, but no such luck this time.  They started out too late for my schedule, so I missed them.  I did get a couple shots in down in Ringoes, though.  In addition to that I caught a quartet of NS jobs in Three Bridges.  I did miss one DOD move that I had hoped to catch – it was heading this way, and would have been cool to catch it in NJ and CT (photos from here are coming soon…).  So here’s the goods from my morning in NJ.

Thanks for looking!
Tom