{"id":2621,"date":"2011-08-02T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2011-08-02T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:25:18","slug":"two-trains-of-empty-cans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/two-trains-of-empty-cans\/","title":{"rendered":"Two trains of empty cans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PWWay back on June 8th I was able to get out and shoot a bit in the morning. \u00a0I intented to duck out and shoot Providence & Worcester train NR-2 along the Thames River. \u00a0But as things worked out, I ended up catching two P&W jobs in the Groton\/New London area – both carrying empty ethanol tanks back to the New England Central Railroad. \u00a0A nice change of pace.<\/p>\n

With a hole in my schedule I headed north out of Groton in search of P&W NR-2. \u00a0I figured the time I was heading out, I’d be able to set my sights on Stoddard Cove and start my chase there. \u00a0So up Route 12 I went.<\/p>\n

As I pulled into the boat launch parking lot at Stoddard Cove, NR-2 informed the dispatcher that they were south of MP12, putting them a few minutes out. \u00a0A couple\u00a0moments\u00a0later Mark Shenking pulled in to also shoot. \u00a0But the question would be are they more than light power today? (the previous day<\/a>, NR-2 was light power southbound). \u00a0Well, in a few minutes I got my answer – NR-2 was hauling 40 empty ethanol tank cars.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115802]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixnormal:115801]\n

Then as the tail end went by, I got a quick grab shot past the calm cove<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115800]\n

After that, I headed south for some run-of-the-Mill Cove shots<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115799]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixnormal:1157998]\n

Then off to Goss Cove and the USS Nautilus overlook park, where some students were waiting at the crossing<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115797]\n

And a wider shot with the sub<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115796]\n

With that in the bag, the next stop was Fairview, where I got a standard telephoto shot<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115795]\n

And a wider one<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115794]\n

But as the train passed, Rod leaned out the window and threw down a note. \u00a0The note said “PR3 coming with 40 more.” \u00a0So there was another P&W train in the picture – but this one was coming down the Shore Line!<\/p>\n

First, though, I snapped a shot of a passing chalk drawing<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115793]\n

Then it was over to Shaw’s Cove to hopefully catch NR2 making their way over to the NECR.<\/p>\n

While waiting there, a westbound Acela passed through town, and over the Shaw’s Cove swing bridge.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115792]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixnormal:115791]\n

And while still waiting, I got a couple shots of the swing bridge in action<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115790]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixnormal:115789]\n

By that time, I had to start making my way back to the office – it would be some time before anything would move because in addition to Shaw’s being open, Thames was on its way to open for river traffic as well.<\/p>\n

After taking care of what I needed to do at the office, I ventured back out over lunch to see if PR-3X had come into the picture yet. \u00a0Listening to the scanner gave me that information – they were around Mystic, heading west, but the odd thing was NR-2 was still sitting at Groton!<\/p>\n

So I headed east to Palmer’s Cove to try and catch PR-3X there. \u00a0And just as I got to the parking lot,PR-3X appeared over the causeway on Palmer’s Cove<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115788]\n

Couldn’t have timed it any better! \u00a0With that in the bag, and from the sounds of things the Amtrak New London dispatcher was about to let NR-2 out of Groton and cross the river just ahead of PR-3X. \u00a0So I headed over to the edge of the Thames to get some across-the-river shots.<\/p>\n

By the time I got there, NR-2 was already shoving back into the NECR yard. \u00a0I decided on doing a long shot – using the 70-200mm with the 1.4x teleconverter. \u00a0With that I got a shot of NR-2s power crossing the Winthrop Cove trestle as a US Coast Guard rigid hull inflatable passed by<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115787]\n

And not long after that, PR-3X came into view, and I got a few shots of them shoving back into the yard as well – and also managed to fit in the USCG inflatable, along with a US Navy Police boat<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixnormal:115786]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixnormal:115785]\u00a0[cpg_imagefixnormal:115784]\n

And that brought me to the end of my window over lunch, so it was back to the office. \u00a0Not a bad trip trackside.<\/p>\n

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

Way back on June 8th I was able to get out and shoot a bit in the morning. \u00a0I intented to duck out and shoot Providence & Worcester train NR-2 along the Thames River. \u00a0But as things worked out, I ended up catching two P&W jobs in the Groton\/New London area – both carrying empty […]<\/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":[83,13,505,14,420,67,418,68,21,25,59,22,506,8,82,89,24,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-2621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-acela","8":"tag-amtrak","9":"tag-chalk-drawing","10":"tag-connecticut","11":"tag-ethanol","12":"tag-fairview","13":"tag-goss-cove","14":"tag-groton","15":"tag-ledyard","16":"tag-mill-cove","17":"tag-new-london","18":"tag-nr-2","19":"tag-pr-3x","20":"tag-providence-worcester","21":"tag-shaws-cove","22":"tag-stoddard-cove","23":"tag-thames-river","24":"tag-uss-nautilus","25":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}