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Yech – clouds & rain this morning. I still headed out for my walk, but there wasn’t much walking to do because of the downpour. It did let up a bit at the end, so I did get something in before P&W train NR-2 got on the scene, so at least it wasn’t a complete washout. Yeah, got a few pictures also…<\/p>\n
I headed out this morning at the usual time, and it was just starting to rain. By the time I got to Erickson Park, it was downright pouring, so I figured I’d wait around a few minutes to see if I could get a status of NR-2 over the scanner. About 5 minutes later I got my answer – they were heading south out of Norwich yard and about 15 minutes from the sub base. Now if the rain would just let up.<\/p>\n
About 12 minutes later the rain did let up, and the skies started to brighten up a bit. With the nearly complete lack of wind, the water on the cove was quite calm – hopefully it’ll yield a nice reflection of the train. Moments later, the scanner woke up with NR-2 reporting that they were south of MP-5. Time to take my position at the south end of the cove.<\/p>\n
Not more than a minute after the report, NR-2 started sounding for the crossing at Red Top and made their way onto the causeway between Mill Cove and the Thames River<\/p>\n
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And stretched out along the causeway<\/p>\n
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Then finally a shot of the trailing power slipping behind the trees at the south end of the cove, again, giving a pretty nice reflection.<\/p>\n
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From there I headed down to the Thames River drawbridge to check on the progress of the east tower. Nothing major, just some catwalks installed.<\/p>\n
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With the drawbridge open, a tug headed south through the open bridge<\/p>\n
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Then something caught my eye to the south – a Sub Base police boat heading north in the river.<\/p>\n
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And finally a shot of the tug continuing south<\/p>\n
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Listening to the scanner, there was an Amtrak train in the picture, so NR-2 wouldn’t be coming out of Groton for a little while. I figured it was time to head back to the office, so I traveled the couple minutes south to the parking lot and called it a morning.<\/p>\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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