The day after my last trip to NJ, I was able to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 under some blue skies. The only problem was that I was only able to catch them at the USS Nautilus. But that’s not really a bad thing…
What the bad thing was is that my car broke down, so I had to limp it back home to get my truck. So after transferring my gear to the truck, I headed into work. On the trip south, the scanner was doing its thing, and as I was coming into Franklin, I barely picked up the Jewett City detector – it sounded like it reported 8 axles heading south. Then the Worcester dispatcher acknowledged that NR-2 went through the detector without any defects. OK, so there was light engines heading south. I figured that it was still worth shooting, so I headed south.
I managed to keep ahead of them, and eventually decided on catching them at the USS Nautilus overlook park in Groton. I pulled in and parked a couple minutes ahead of NR-2 – in fact, as I parked and started to walk around, NR-2 reported that they were south of MP5. So I went to the truck, grabbed my gear, and headed to the fence to pick an angle.
I opted for a spot close to the Sub Force museum, something a little different than what I usually shoot. A moment later, the crossing activated, and NR-2 came into view.
[cpg_imagefixthumb:8281]Then a couple shots of the pair of locomotives rolling past the Nautilus
[cpg_imagefixthumb:8280] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8279]And that was it – I had to get into the office, so I didn’t wait for the train to cross the Thames.
Thanks for looking!
Tom
