![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_20071029-_MG_1603.jpg?resize=150%2C100\")
Well, yesterday I did manage to get out in time to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 (unlike today – I missed them completely because I couldn’t get out in time – oh, well, ya gotta strike out from time to time…). I had enough time to get up to Mill Cove and do my normal walk around the park before NR-2s arrival.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
While walking around, one thing I noticed – still quite a bit of green on the trees. The colors are still slowly inching their way south, and have yet to really take hold in southeastern Connecticut. At least the recent wind & rain hasn’t stripped all the leaves off of the branches. Anyways, as I finished up my walk, I heard horns in the distance – NR-2 was sounding for the crossings at Dow Chemical to the north. So it was into the car for the quick trip to the south end of Mill Cove. Today I wanted to get the usual telephoto shots, in addition to some wide angle shots at the south end of the cove. A couple trees were beginning to turn colors, and I wanted to include them in the frame.<\/p>\n
A minute later, NR-2 began sounding for the crossing at Red Top and came around the corner at MP4<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5122] [cpg_imagefixthumb:5121]\n
And a usual shot with the Harvard Boat House<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5120]\n
Then the foliage across the river caught my eye. Apparently the trees over there were changing faster than here on the eastern shore.<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5119]\n
The the lens swap – took the telephoto off and strapped on the 18-50mm wide angle zoom. Got a pair of shots at the south end of the cove, the first a vertical of the lead power heading for the trees.<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5118]\n
And the one I wanted – a wider shot of the trailing power and a couple trees<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5117]\n
From there it was off to the overlook south of the Thames River drawbridge. I got there a minute or so before NR-2 got to the signal (which was waiting for them with a green), so that gave me enough time to get into position. I opted for a slightly different framing – this time including some of the moored sailboats in the frame<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5116]\n
Then a shot of the trailing power passing the crane barge<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5115]\n
And as NR-2 rolled across the river to New London, I snapped a picture of a fishing vessel offloading their catch on the State Pier<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5114]\n
I figured I’d stay put and get a slightly different angle of NR-2 heading over Shaw’s Cove. I got a trio of shots at 200mm of the train crossing over the westernmost part of the bridge in New London.<\/p>\n
[cpg_imagefixthumb:5113] [cpg_imagefixthumb:5112] [cpg_imagefixthumb:5111]\n
Satisfied with what I got in the beautiful morning sunlight, I packed up and headed back to the office for the remainder of the day. A day that was clearly too nice to spend inside…but alas I did…duty calls!<\/p>\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, yesterday I did manage to get out in time to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 (unlike today – I missed them completely because I couldn’t get out in time – oh, well, ya gotta strike out from time to time…). I had enough time to get up to Mill Cove and do my […]<\/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-270","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\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}