{"id":1369,"date":"2009-12-09T22:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T02:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2009-12-09T22:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T02:03:04","slug":"necr-pw-and-an-amtrak-with-a-mccafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/necr-pw-and-an-amtrak-with-a-mccafe\/","title":{"rendered":"NECR, P&W and an Amtrak with a McCafe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"With the pretty much fiasco of last Thursday night<\/a> on my mind, I really wanted to “redeem myself” and get some decent shots without destroying any more of my gear. \u00a0So on Friday I headed out to try and catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2. \u00a0Figured that was pretty safe – and as it turned out, I got more than just NR-2, and everything remained intact.<\/p>\n

That morning I got a call from Bob LaMay – he was up in Preston waiting for NR-2 and hadn’t seen them yet – so I figured I’d head out. \u00a0With the timing, I figured my best bet would be Mill Cove.<\/p>\n

As I got to the bottom of Long Cove Road, I noticed a car parked nearby, and as I turned left to shoot from the bottom of the cove, I noticed Paolo Roffo waiting on the bridge. \u00a0And just as I parked, Bob called to let me know that NR2 was on their way south with one whopping car.<\/p>\n

So Paolo & I shot the bull for a bit while waiting for NR2, and during that time NECR train NERWNE headed north across the river, and I got a shot of them with a boat in the river.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10887]\n

After a bit longer, NR2 came into view<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10886]\n

Then a standard shot<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10885]\n

And this one caught my eye, with a swan floating past in the foreground<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10884]\n

Finally a couple more standard shots at the bottom end of the cove<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10883]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10882]\n

After that I was thinking of going over to Shaw’s Cove and catching them there. \u00a0But Paolo said he’d be heading over to Niantic to the NAN drawbridge. \u00a0I figured that since it had been some time since I was over there, I’d join him.<\/p>\n

Well, I finally got over there (had to wait for the car drawbridge to close) a few minutes before we saw any action on the tracks. \u00a0After picking out my angle, we waited. \u00a0A couple minutes later, Amtrak train 171 rolled across the bridge with a pair of AEM-7 toasters on the point.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10881]\n

But then as the tail end passed by, I noticed something odd – the last car was wrapped in a McDonalds McCafe theme. \u00a0So I quickly grabbed the telephoto and got a shot of it crossing the Niantic River<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10880]\n

Then a couple more of it heading off into the distance.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10879]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10878]\n

Pretty neat catch! \u00a0And not too far behind 171 was NR-2, now with an extra car that they picked up in Fairview Yard. \u00a0I got a series of shots of the freight rolling along Niantic Bay<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10877]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10876]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10875]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10874]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10873]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixthumb:10872]\n

With NR2 fading off into the distance, I figured it was time to head back to the office. \u00a0So as Paolo was setting up for his next shot, we bid farewell, and I packed up the gear and headed back to Groton.<\/p>\n

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

With the pretty much fiasco of last Thursday night on my mind, I really wanted to “redeem myself” and get some decent shots without destroying any more of my gear. \u00a0So on Friday I headed out to try and catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2. \u00a0Figured that was pretty safe – and as it turned […]<\/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":[119,13,14,25,366,166,7,200,22,8,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-1369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-119","8":"tag-amtrak","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-mill-cove","11":"tag-nan","12":"tag-nerwne","13":"tag-new-england-central","14":"tag-niantic","15":"tag-nr-2","16":"tag-providence-worcester","17":"tag-thames-river","18":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}