{"id":2928,"date":"2012-04-02T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2012-04-02T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:16:55","slug":"pw-willimantic-extra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/pw-willimantic-extra-2\/","title":{"rendered":"P&W Willimantic Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On Friday March 30th, the Providence & Worcester Railroad ran an extra from Worcester, MA to Willimantic, CT to handle the interchange traffic to and from the New England Central Railroad. \u00a0It turned out to be a very nice day, weather-wise, and with summer hours upon us here at work, I decided to take advantage of the open afternoon and chase the train between Plainfield, CT and Willimantic, making many stops along the way – some familiar, and some more experimental. \u00a0Overall, I think they all worked rather well.<\/p>\n

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The chase started just after lunch when I made my way towards Plainfield, CT to intercept the train on the P&W’s Norwich Branch before they headed west over the Willimantic Branch. \u00a0I got to the junction of the two lines near the P&W’s Plainfield Terminal a few minutes before the extra’s arrival. \u00a0As it turned out, they had to make a pickup in Plainfield before heading west towards Willimantic, so I grabbed a few shots there before starting the chase west.<\/p>\n

The westward trek included stops at familiar spots – like Packer’s Pond, Versailles, Baltic and Scotland Dam – along with a few new angles in Canterbury, Versailles and near the Scotland Dam. \u00a0Of course, the chase was wrapped up with a series of shots around Willimantic yard – including views of the former American Thread mills, and a few shots up by Bridge Street with the Windham Court House serving as a colorful backdrop.<\/p>\n

Not much else to say – a pretty uneventful chase, so here’s the pictures.<\/p>\n[AFG_gallery id=’11’]\n

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

On Friday March 30th, the Providence & Worcester Railroad ran an extra from Worcester, MA to Willimantic, CT to handle the interchange traffic to and from the New England Central Railroad. \u00a0It turned out to be a very nice day, weather-wise, and with summer hours upon us here at work, I decided to take advantage […]<\/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":[40,532,14,174,7,104,8,9,10,105,12,390],"class_list":{"0":"post-2928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-baltic","8":"tag-canterbury","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-lisbon","11":"tag-new-england-central","12":"tag-plainfield","13":"tag-providence-worcester","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scotland-dam","16":"tag-versailles","17":"tag-willimantic","18":"tag-windham","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}