{"id":130,"date":"2007-05-25T19:34:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T23:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-05-25T19:34:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T23:34:29","slug":"pw-nr-2-at-mill-cove-or-how-things-change-in-the-blink-of-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/pw-nr-2-at-mill-cove-or-how-things-change-in-the-blink-of-an-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"P&W NR-2 at Mill Cove – or how things change in the blink of an eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’m sure you’re asking yourselves “What on earth is he talking about now?” Well, read on and you’ll get your answer. I headed to Erickson Park in Ledyard, CT again for my walk this morning, and did end up bagging NR-2 rolling southbound on this rather warm Friday morning before the long Memorial Day weekend. As I pulled into the parking area of the park, I was greeted with a rather calm Mill Cove in front of me, yeilding some very nice reflections of the surrounding scenery. Sweet, I’d get a shot of NR-2 running along the calm waters! Or so I thought…<\/p>\n

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After my walk around the park, I headed into my position to the south ahead of the arrival of NR-2. While looking for possible angles, I noticed a pair of swans on the causeway – one was in a nest, and the other was nearby watching over her.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3183]\n

The weather was still holding – only a breath of air was moving, and the water was still like glass. A moment later, I heard horns to the north, then a crackle over the scanner – NR-2 was south of MP5, and less than a mile away from me. So I got into position, and as I turned around, looking at the cove from my vista, the wind kicked up and rippled the entire cove! Yep, in the 10 seconds it took me to climb a small wall, and walk a bit up the hillside, the water changed from glass to fabric! Oh, well, nothing I could do about it, and NR-2 was now sounding for the Red Top crossing. So I snapped a few shots of them, still giving a bit of a subtle reflection in the water, but not what I had originally envisioned. First, the train pulling through the curve at the north end of Mill Cove<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3182]\n

Then a shot of the power passing the new swan family<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3181]\n

And a couple generic type ones of them passing by<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3180] [cpg_imagefixthumb:3179] [cpg_imagefixthumb:3178]\n

Then a string of red Tilcon hoppers rolled past<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3177]\n

Moments later, the trailing power rolled onto the causeway, and past the swan family<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3176]\n

And one more of the generic variety<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3175]\n

Then they were out of sight. Hopped back in the car and headed south. They were to work a bit in Fairview before heading to Midway, so I didn’t have time to stick around and catch them heading to Tilcon. I did stop off at the USS Nautilus overlook park south of the Sub Base to get a shot of the first nuclear sub all decked out for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:3174]\n

You can’t see it here, but it’s getting quite overgrown, and there’s not many angles left to shoot through at the so-called overlook park. Pretty soon, you’ll get a really nice view of growing trees, shrubs and weeds, with something that resembles a submarine buried in the background. I wish the Town of Groton would do something about it, but in these tight financial times, I’m not counting on it…<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you’re asking yourselves “What on earth is he talking about now?” Well, read on and you’ll get your answer. I headed to Erickson Park in Ledyard, CT again for my walk this morning, and did end up bagging NR-2 rolling southbound on this rather warm Friday morning before the long Memorial Day weekend. […]<\/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":[14,68,21,25,22,8,97,24,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-groton","9":"tag-ledyard","10":"tag-mill-cove","11":"tag-nr-2","12":"tag-providence-worcester","13":"tag-submarine","14":"tag-thames-river","15":"tag-uss-nautilus","16":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}