{"id":2240,"date":"2011-01-07T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2011-01-07T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T15:30:58","slug":"rmne-northern-lights-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/rmne-northern-lights-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"RMNE Northern Lights Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Northern Lights Limited\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20110103\/thumb_20101218-420204365-_MG_2488.jpg?resize=149%2C74\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"74\" \/>Back on the 18th of December (yes, I&#8217;m still clearing the backlog from last year) Jill, the girls &amp; I headed west to Thomaston, CT to ride the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmne.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Railroad Museum of New England&#8217;<\/a>s Northern Lights Limited. \u00a0It was suggested by a RMNE volunteer (thanks HP) that we make the trek out. \u00a0Well, to put it simply &#8211; we were very glad to take the ride to the other end of the state! \u00a0Not only did I get a bunch of pretty good night shots, but more importantly the kids had a blast! \u00a0And that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about &#8211; making Christmas time a happy one for the kids.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When we got there, we were greeted by a train dressed up in a very festive manner with lights &amp; wreaths waiting at the station (power was former NH FL-9 #2019 on one end and former PW U23B #2203 on the other). \u00a0After getting our tickets in the station, we poked around a bit since we had about 20 minutes before boarding. \u00a0Without a tripod at this point, I just took a few high-ISO shots around the station. \u00a0Once on board, I got a few shots of the girls &#8211; including one with Santa and Mrs. Claus &#8211; and a couple shots of Santa&#8217;s train workshop (pretty neat story they told on board), but for the most part I just enjoyed the time along with the girls. \u00a0After we got back to Thomaston, Jill &amp; the girls went for hot chocolate &amp; apples, and I got my tripod out of the car to get a few more shots of the train sitting at the station all lit up. \u00a0All in all a superb evening &#8211; everyone enjoyed the trip, and Jill &amp; the girls really loved the way the train was dressed up on the outside with the lights. \u00a0Thanks RMNE for a great trip!!!<\/p>\n<p>OK, enough of that &#8211; here&#8217;s the pictures!<\/p>\n[cpg_album:822]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the 18th of December (yes, I&#8217;m still clearing the backlog from last year) Jill, the girls &amp; I headed west to Thomaston, CT to ride the Railroad Museum of New England&#8217;s Northern Lights Limited. \u00a0It was suggested by a RMNE volunteer (thanks HP) that we make the trek out. \u00a0Well, to put 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":[31,2],"tags":[14,111,485,297,486],"class_list":{"0":"post-2240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-night-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-night","10":"tag-northern-lights-limited","11":"tag-railroad-museum-of-new-england","12":"tag-thoamston","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","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=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}