On Sunday the 17th I had to run down to Stop-N-Shop for some last minute supplies for dinner. Heading out there things were quiet in Willimantic – traffic waiting for the PW to pick up, and no activity in the NECR yard. The trip back home, however, things were a […]
NR-4X
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You ever have “one of those days” before where things just didn’t go right from the start? Well, I had “one of those nights” last week. I found out that the Providence & Worcester would be running an NR-4X to Willimantic under cover of darkness on Thursday night, so I […]
Well, I’ll be doing things a little out of order here. I’ve got some shots from the last week or two that I need to process and get online, but in the meantime, I’ve got some stuff from yesterday that’s ready to go. So that’s what you get to look […]
Last Friday after dinner, we decided to take the girls out for a little treat. So as we sometimes do, we headed into Willimantic to visit our local Dairy Queen. Going there involves crossing the New England Central tracks, which is also where the Providence & Worcester now interchanges with […]
This past Sunday, my older daughter Katina had a birthday party to go do for a friend from school. So that left her younger sister Callie and I with an open afternoon to do what we wanted. I asked her if she’d like to go with me to photograph a […]
Today I had to bring my older daughter to the dentist, and then school, so I was going into work late. As it worked out, the Providence & Worcester ran another NR-4X to Willimantic today. So I figured I could take the scenic route into work and hopefully come across […]
This past Tuesday the Providence & Worcester ran an extra – NR-4X – from Plainfield to Willimantic. They brought out some interchange traffic for the NECR, but also they were picking up some cars from Willimantic. Some were the normal lumber flats and boxcars, but five were different. There were […]