{"id":1981,"date":"2010-09-22T22:12:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2010-09-22T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T02:12:03","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-three-trains-i-did-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-to-me-three-trains-i-did-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to me, three trains I did see"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I decided to take the week of \u00a0Labor Day off from work, and that week\u00a0coincidentally\u00a0also contained my birthday (it was the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday – doesn’t make me feel as old saying it that way). \u00a0And on that day, after Jill & I put the kids on the bus, we went for a ride to see what trains we could find. \u00a0At the very least I was hoping for New England Central train NERWNE (AKA 608), which had a Florida East Coast Railway GP40 for power. \u00a0We managed to find them, and also bagged a couple more for good measure.<\/p>\n

With the kids safely on the bus, we headed south on a mission to find NECR NERWNE\/608 somewhere south of Norwich. \u00a0Of course, as we approched Norwich Harbor, I could see 608 heading north – guess we missed that shot. \u00a0But as luck had it, they had to switch out the PostScript warehouse. \u00a0So we made our way to Indian Leap park, where I bagged a shot of them heading north through the cut near the falls.<\/p>\n

After that, we headed to New London to shoot a loaded ethanol train that was about to pull into the yard, dropping 40 cars for the P&W. \u00a0This is where I made a pretty boneheaded move, and proved that waterproof boots aren’t waterproof if you go into the water to your knees. \u00a0Yep, I slipped off of a rock, and went for a little wade into Winthrop Cove in New London. \u00a0But all is well – the boots are dry, and the cameras never touched the water.<\/p>\n

Then on the way home, we heard NR2 on the scanner, so I got a couple shots of them at Mill Cove for good measure. \u00a0And while there waiting for them, the ethanol power was heading north light, so I got a shot of them across the river, only missing the cross-Thames meet by about a minute.<\/p>\n

That’s the short version – here’s the photos.<\/p>\n[cpg_album:772]\n

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

I decided to take the week of \u00a0Labor Day off from work, and that week\u00a0coincidentally\u00a0also contained my birthday (it was the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday – doesn’t make me feel as old saying it that way). \u00a0And on that day, after Jill & I put the kids on the bus, we went for […]<\/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":[14,420,36,52,68,465,449,21,25,166,7,59,22,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-1981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-ethanol","9":"tag-florida-east-coast-railway","10":"tag-franklin","11":"tag-groton","12":"tag-indian-leap","13":"tag-k666","14":"tag-ledyard","15":"tag-mill-cove","16":"tag-nerwne","17":"tag-new-england-central","18":"tag-new-london","19":"tag-nr-2","20":"tag-providence-worcester","21":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}