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Today is a solemn day – the 8th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York, Washington DC & Shanksville, PA where so many lost their lives.\u00a0 I decided to observe the passing of the moment by going out and exercising my freedom to take photos of what I want, where I want, and I wasn’t going to let the rain stop me either.\u00a0 As things worked out, though, the timing was pretty much perfect to kick things off.<\/p>\n
Despite the gloomy weather, I headed out this morning for a quick jaunt to Mill Cove to hopefully shoot Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south.\u00a0 As i left the office, it was barely sprinkling out – OK, not too bad.\u00a0 But let’s see what it was like up in Ledyard.<\/p>\n
When I got to the parking area at Erickson Park, the rain was picking up a bit in intensity – not torrential, but not the sprinkle I was seeing down in Groton.\u00a0 That’s OK – I just need to adjust the camera settings a bit.<\/p>\n
While doing that, I heard horns to the north – must be NR-2.\u00a0 But they were close – really close.\u00a0 That only meant that they were already at Red Top!\u00a0 So I grabbed my cameras, and ran down to the edge of the park.\u00a0 I left the car running, and on the radio they were preparing for a moment of silence.<\/p>\n
Just as I got to the edge of the park, NR-2 appeared.\u00a0 But they didn’t just appear – they appeared at exactly 8:46AM, which is also the time American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center 8 years earlier.\u00a0 I thought the timing might be close since the radio station was getting ready for a moment of silence.\u00a0 So I got a series of shots as NR-2 rolled through the rain along Mill Cove, and got back to the car just as the radio came back from the moment of silence.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10221] [cpg_imagefixthumb:10220] [cpg_imagefixthumb:10219] [cpg_imagefixthumb:10218]\n
After I got back, I verified the time of the shots…weird indeed.<\/p>\n
I figured I could make it ahead of them to either the USS Nautilus overlook park, or at the very least Fairview.<\/p>\n
As luck had it, I got to the Nautilus overlook just as the crossing gates were dropping at the pedestrian crossing.\u00a0 I grabbed my gear, and set up a shot – doing one telephoto, and one wider angle shot.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10217] [cpg_imagefixthumb:10216]\n
With those in the bag, I decided to head back to the office.\u00a0 It sounded like NR-2 was going to be working Fairview for a bit.\u00a0 So instead of hanging around in the rain, I headed back to the confines of my office.<\/p>\n
9\/11\/2001 – Never Forget<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks for\u00a0 looking! Today is a solemn day – the 8th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York, Washington DC & Shanksville, PA where so many lost their lives.\u00a0 I decided to observe the passing of the moment by going out and exercising my freedom to take photos of what I want, where I want, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[326,14,68,21,25,22,8,108,24,159,98,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-1147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-326","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-groton","10":"tag-ledyard","11":"tag-mill-cove","12":"tag-nr-2","13":"tag-providence-worcester","14":"tag-rain","15":"tag-thames-river","16":"tag-tugboat","17":"tag-us-navy","18":"tag-uss-nautilus","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"