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Once again, the weather geeks had it right – cloudy, windy with rain rolling in mid-morning. What a way to start out the week. But I didn’t let that stop me from my morning walk. I headed out for Erickson Park in Ledyard at my usual time, and got there well ahead of Providence & Worcester train NR-2. That gave me time to take my usual walk, and scout around for some different angles. It seems that I’ve hit most of them.<\/p>\n
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While I was grabbing my gear, the Worcester dispatcher was checking with NR-2 and where they were. The crew reported back that they were south of MP17 – that gave me a good 20-25 minutes before they got to me in Ledyard. Perfect. So I walked around for a bit, and grabbed a shot of a boat heading south in the Thames on a not really a boating day.<\/p>\n
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I decided to try my hand at a couple 6×6 frames with the Rolleiflex TLR, in addition to a couple digitals. So I picked my spot, set up the tripod and put the TLR on it. As I was setting up and getting a meter reading, the skies opened up. So I grabbed the camera, and ran back to the car – leaving the tripod in place. Not a big deal – it’s just aluminum.<\/p>\n
As the shower passed, NR-2 reported that they were south of MP5 – perfect timing today. So I headed for the tripod, set the TLR back on it, set the focus using the depth of field scale on it (I’m tellin’ ya, it’s old school!), and finally grabbed a shot as the train came through the waist level finder (stay tuned to see the shot – it’ll be somewhat familiar<\/a>). Something struck me about the camera sitting there on the tripod, so I backed up with the 20D and the wide angle lens and grabbed a shot of NR-2 passing behind the set up TLR<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:3768]\n Then as the trailing power passed by, I grabbed a quick digital shot of the rear end of the train, with a string of loaded Tilcon hoppers ahead of the power<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:3767]\n As NR-2 was heading into the distance, the skies kept getting darker. Time to pack up & head back to the office for the rest of the rainy, dreary Monday. I’ve got 2 frames left on the TLR, so watch for some scans later this week.<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! Once again, the weather geeks had it right – cloudy, windy with rain rolling in mid-morning. What a way to start out the week. But I didn’t let that stop me from my morning walk. I headed out for Erickson Park in Ledyard at my usual time, and got there well ahead of Providence & […]<\/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-186","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\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"