On Tuesday the 9th, unfortunately New England Central train 610 put some loaded ethanol cars on the ground in Willimantic yard. With a sick daughter home from school, and Jill working, I couldn’t get out to photograph it. But later in the evening I did get a chance to head out and get a few night shots of R.J. Corman working on the cleanup of the mess. It wasn’t from an ideal angle – the fire and police were keeping the public a good distance away – but I tried to get a flavor of what was going on.
I ended up shooting from the Frog Bridge through some tight mesh chain link fence. Despite the narrow mesh of the fencing (I’d say about 1/2″ to 5/8″ mesh – I didn’t have a tape-measure handy), the pictures came out pretty well. All are shot using only available light, and obviously on a tripod. If you look at the full sized version in the gallery, you can see how Corman is moving the cars.
[cpg_album:802]Thanks for looking!
Tom
