Wednesday Day and Night on the NECR

Slowly getting back up to speed with the posts here.  Work is still hectic, but after work on Wednesday I managed to get out and catch a little New England Central Railroad action in the form of an ethanol extra.  Then later that evening, I joined a couple friends in Willimantic to shoot the NECR Palmer turn down in the yard under some unique conditions – facing east was cloudless and moonlit, facing west gave a nice view of some approaching thunderstorms.

As has been lately, I’ll be keeping the text somewhat brief.  In the evening I headed out with the family, and we chased and shot a southbound loaded NECR ethanol extra in Mansfield and Willimantic, CT.  Also managed to work my daughters into one shot up on the foot bridge in Willimantic.  Later in the evening, I joined Bob LaMay and Nick Palazini down in Willimantic for a little impromptu night photo session with NECR train 610, and the pair of SD40s that brought the ethanol down earlier (they had to drop that power in the yard because 6 axle power is not allowed south of MP27, so they used a pair of PW GEs that were in the yard waiting).  And what made things nicer was that one of the SD40s that brought the ethanol down was FEC #722.  Looked really pretty under the moon (as you’ve already seen in the post thumbnail).  OK, enough of that, here’s the photos!

Thanks for looking!
Tom