{"id":162,"date":"2007-06-26T22:28:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2007-06-26T22:28:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T02:28:58","slug":"cso-4-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/cso-4-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding with the crew of CSO-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20070627\/thumb_20070623-103210-_MG_6647.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/>I had the pleasure of riding with the crew of Connecticut Southern Railroad train CSO-4 on Saturday June 23, 2007.  In addition to the friendly conversation, often times peppered with gut-wrenching laughter, I took a few photos.  OK, it was more than a few &#8211; well over 700 in fact&#8230; \ud83d\ude00  I did pare it down to about 100 keepers, of which you&#8217;ll see a little less than 50.  For now&#8230; stay tuned for more sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First off, thanks to the guys at the CSOR, including of course the two guys working CSO-4 on Saturday for letting me tag along for the day.  It&#8217;s always nice getting the view of railroading from the perspective of the employees that get these trains over the road, instead of the typical trackside view.<\/p>\n<p>Quick synopsis of the day &#8211; Between Hartford and West Springfield, we encountered a few Amtraks, an eastbound CSX stack train, a northbound PanAm freight (PLED if you&#8217;re curious), four railfans, one of which I recognized (hi Tom!), and some downright gorgeous weather.<\/p>\n<p>OK, enough blabbing &#8211; here&#8217;s the goods.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[cpg_album:210]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of riding with the crew of Connecticut Southern Railroad train CSO-4 on Saturday June 23, 2007. In addition to the friendly conversation, often times peppered with gut-wrenching laughter, I took a few photos. OK, it was more than a few &#8211; well over 700 in fact&#8230; \ud83d\ude00 I did pare it [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}