I guess I’m really slacking lately. I just realized that I haven’t been putting posts up here for biweekly iterations of Trackside with TRAINS.com since the original post (here). Even though it’s a bit late, as of today voting is still open for Volume 148, whose subject is Tangent Tracks. […]
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On the evening of September 11, 2010 all four of us headed out for an evening of food, beer (only for Jill & I) and music. A friend of ours’ band – The Brothers Donovan – was playing at Fred’s Brick House in Willimantic. Since it’s an all-ages restaurant, and […]
On the morning of September 11th, I asked my daughters if they’d like to come out with me to shoot an ethanol train (OK, I didn’t say “ethanol” since they’re 5 and 7, and have no idea what ethanol is). The older one said “naw, I want to stay with […]
On the day after my birthday, September 10th, I headed out in the morning for a bit to shoot a little, despite the cloudy weather. But as usual, I never let the weather conditions discourage me from shooting, and in fact, I think it helped in one case.
I decided to take the week of Labor Day off from work, and that week coincidentally also contained my birthday (it was the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday – doesn’t make me feel as old saying it that way). And on that day, after Jill & I put the kids on […]
On September 7th, the Providence & Worcester Railroad ran an extra from Worcester, MA down to Groton, CT, and I managed to photograph it between Central Village and Groton, while running into a couple other photographers along the way. This is going to be one of the more vague posts, […]
Still getting through the backlog of stuff. Now we’re up to last Monday – Labor Day – where we did a couple family chases. Both were quite spur of the moment, but both were not successful. On the other hand, without the failure, the successful one probably would not have […]
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 […]
This one is from back on September 2nd – yep, still catching up on stuff. Over my past trips down to New Jersey, I’ve met a few local railfans down there, and every Thursday a group gets together to watch & photograph trains at Bound Brook station. I figured that […]
With the days progressively getting shorter, time to shoot outside of work hours is getting limited. But that doesn’t mean I put the cameras down and not shoot. Just means I have to work with the cards I’ve been dealt. So while I was on my trip to New Jersey, […]