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As the rest of the state was getting their first snowfall of the season, down on the shore we got stuck with a mix of rain & sleet – well, honestly, it was mostly rain. One of the downfalls of being on the shoreline. But that didn’t keep me from heading out for a bit this morning.<\/p>\n
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I got out a touch later than normal, but I did catch NR-2s status update when they were south of MP12 and about 20 minutes from the sub base on my way north to Erickson Park. I got there about 10 minutes prior to their arrival, so that gave me enough time to get out, stretch my legs a bit and check the angles. There’s a pair of trees that just recently changed color and were already dropping their leaves. So I figured this was my best bet, since they’ll probably have next to no leaves left in the next few days.<\/p>\n
Since I wanted to get both trees in the shot framing the passing train, I only had one choice for a lens – the 15mm fisheye. With the wide field of view, I also had to be conscious of the position of my umbrella – remember it’s raining. A couple minutes later, a rumbling from the north grew louder, and was punctuated by the sound of horns at Red Top. In a couple moments, NR-2 came down along the cove with a single B40-8 in the lead. As soon as the lead power got about halfway through the frame, I grabbed the shot.<\/p>\n
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Then something caught my eye – or more accurately the absence of something. Typically, NR-2 runs with locomotives on each end of the train. Today the train was powered by a single locomotive. So I got a shot, very similar to the last one, that included the entire train.<\/p>\n
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Not bad. So it was back to the car and time to head south, where I eventually caught up with NR-2 at the south end of Fairview yard in Groton. I headed for the overlook south of the bridge for another hopeful shot.<\/p>\n
Well, scanner chatter told me that NR-2 crossing the bridge in time for me to catch it wouldn’t be in the cards. So I grabbed a couple shots of the Saga Sky<\/em>, a freighter moored at the State Pier in New London. She was loaded with lumber and was preparing to offload it at the pier. Here’s a shot of the workers getting ready to start the offload process.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:5354]\n And a wider shot of the entire ship.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:5353]\n After that, a quick wave of the towel and the equipment was dry, and I was on my way back to the office for the rest of the cold & raw day.<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! As the rest of the state was getting their first snowfall of the season, down on the shore we got stuck with a mix of rain & sleet – well, honestly, it was mostly rain. One of the downfalls of being on the shoreline. But that didn’t keep me from heading out for a bit […]<\/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":[133,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nautical-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"