On Friday, I got the go-ahead from my wife to break away and go out on the first day of fishing season. But I wasn’t going fishing, instead I would be shooting photos of trains for a few hours on Saturday morning. Initially I decided to head up to CSX […]
Willimantic
As a huge fan of indie original music (not cover band crap), I was pleased to find out that there was a great benefit show going on just up the road at The Annex in Willimantic on March 24th featuring some old friends. The lineup was Hugh Bluemfeld (I only […]
I had to bring my truck’s brake drums to the machine shop today to get turned, so I swung through downtown Willimantic to check out what was going on. New England Central train 608 was working the Willimantic Waste/CC Lonsbury area – well out of easy photo range. So I […]
This is more for the politicans in Willimantic making a big stink about nothing. Here’s two shots, not exactly superb ones, but they get the point across. One is in Baltic and one at the controversial Route 203 crossing in South Windham, clearly showing two things. First that the crossing […]
Well, I took the day off from work yesterday (March 5, 2007) to photograph the historic first revenue run over the formerly dormant Providence & Worcester Willimantic Branch between Versailles and Willimantic, CT. Fellow rail photographer Bob LaMay joined me for the chase from Plainfield to Willimantic, and back to […]