{"id":3120,"date":"2012-12-29T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2012-12-29T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T18:41:07","slug":"2012-photo-recap-january-to-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2012-photo-recap-january-to-march\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Photo Recap &#8211; January to March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-VxVfbms\/0\/Th\/20120128-420204365-_MG_4668-Th.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>I usually do a monolithic recap of the previous year&#8217;s photos, but this year I decided to do things a bit differently &#8211; I&#8217;ll be splitting it up into five posts. \u00a0My main reasoning behind this is I&#8217;ve been a bit, um, behind in posting to the blog here. \u00a0So to start to make up for that shortcoming, I&#8217;ll flood ya with a bunch of photos! \u00a0The first four posts will feature my favorite photos from each quarter of the year, and the fifth will be dedicated to my recent night photos on the Valley Railroad as they ran their ever-popular North Pole Express trains. \u00a0For the first post, we&#8217;ll cover the first three months of the year &#8211; January, February and March 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first set of photos I&#8217;ve selected cover railroads in three states &#8211; Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and feature some of my favorite lighting to shoot in &#8211; low light. \u00a0In fact two &#8211; the PanAm hump and East Penn at Topton &#8211; are both taken after sunset. \u00a0There&#8217;s only one &#8220;traditional&#8221; fully lit shot in the bunch that I really liked &#8211; a shot of the\u00a0Providence\u00a0&amp; Worcester crossing over a nice stone arch bridge in Versailles, CT.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the photos below, and I&#8217;ve set up something new &#8211; if you&#8217;re interested in purchasing prints of any of these, click on the album title at the top of the thumbnails (in this case it says &#8220;<em><strong>1 &#8211; January, February and March 2012<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;) and you&#8217;ll be brought to my new SmugMug store site where I have a number of print sizes, along with other merchandise, available for purchase. \u00a0If you do decide to purchase something, first off <strong><em>THANK YOU<\/em><\/strong>! \u00a0Print sales help to pay the hosting bills. \u00a0But as another thank you, I&#8217;ve set up a special coupon &#8211; just use the code\u00a0<strong>NEWSTORE2012<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll get 10% off your entire order! \u00a0That discount coupon is good until the end of January 2013 &#8211; so don&#8217;t delay!<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;d love to hear what you think of things. \u00a0And stay tuned for the next three installments &#8211; featuring everything from our beloved P&amp;W to Norfolk Southern and MetroNorth heritage units!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n<div class='photonic-smug-stream photonic-stream ' id='photonic-smug-stream-1'>\n<header class='photonic-object-header photonic-smug-album '><a href='https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March' class='photonic-header-thumb photonic-smug-album-solo-thumb' title='1 - January, February and March 2012'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-H8SQ35s\/0\/KTq5pNtnqznFBxDZK8gH8qPhqbV44zG4h455pVtR8\/Th\/20120116-1320706060-_MG_1930-Th.jpg?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1 - January, February and March 2012\" \/><\/a><div class='photonic-header-details photonic-album-details'><div class='photonic-header-title photonic-album-title'><a href='https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March'>1 &#8211; January, February and March 2012<\/a><\/div><span class='photonic-header-info photonic-album-photos'>6 photos<\/span><\/div><!-- .photonic-album-details --><\/header>\n\t<div id='photonic-smug-stream-1-container' class='title-display-tooltip photonic-level-1-container sizes-present photonic-gallery-1c photonic-standard-layout photonic-thumbnail-effect-none' data-photonic-platform=\"smug\" data-photonic-gallery-columns=\"1\" data-photonic-query=\"columns=1&amp;layout=square&amp;display=local&amp;popup=hide&amp;filter=&amp;filter_type=include&amp;more=&amp;panel=&amp;custom_classes=&amp;alignment=&amp;photo_layout=square&amp;caption=title-desc&amp;thumb_size=Tiny&amp;main_size=Largest&amp;tile_size=same&amp;video_size=Largest&amp;empty=false&amp;view=images&amp;nick_name=&amp;start=1&amp;count=500&amp;photo_count=500&amp;media=photos&amp;album_sort_order=Last Updated (Descending)&amp;type=smugmug&amp;style=default&amp;album=27304349_vd4QXF&amp;overlay_size=Tiny&amp;overlay_video_size=Largest\">\n\t\t<figure class='photonic-level-1 photonic-thumb'>\n\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-H8SQ35s\/0\/MR3JZS3nwVNB43qHS7kGN9d2jb8sLJfDBQhGztGKV\/XL\/20120116-1320706060-_MG_1930-XL.jpg' title='Sunset over Clayville Pond\nProvidence &amp; Worcester train NR-2 northbound past Clayville Pond in Griswold, CT.' rel='lightbox-photonic-smug-stream-1' class='photonic-lb photonic-baguettebox baguettebox' data-photonic-media-type=\"image\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-photonic-deep=\"gallery[photonic-smug-album-1]\/H8SQ35s\/\" data-title=\"&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-H8SQ35s&#039; &gt;Sunset over Clayville Pond\nProvidence &amp; Worcester train NR-2 northbound past Clayville Pond in Griswold, CT.&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-photonic-tooltip=\"Sunset over Clayville Pond\nProvidence &amp; Worcester train NR-2 northbound past Clayville Pond in Griswold, CT.\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt='' class='square' data-src='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-H8SQ35s\/0\/MTJHbZJgqtj5wtz92nfwK6sPLRXc4G5jwkwZbPNNc\/Ti\/20120116-1320706060-_MG_1930-Ti.jpg' loading='lazy' width='67' height='100' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<figure class='photonic-level-1 photonic-thumb'>\n\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-VxVfbms\/0\/LZ5vpZbvgvnf2trgQgnFmCCQJF4czCCPc4rTfGcv8\/XL\/20120128-420204365-_MG_4668-XL.jpg' title='Pausing at the Hump\nThe Pan Am Railways East Deerfield hump switcher pauses while crews prepare to continue shoving cars over the hump.' rel='lightbox-photonic-smug-stream-1' class='photonic-lb photonic-baguettebox baguettebox' data-photonic-media-type=\"image\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-photonic-deep=\"gallery[photonic-smug-album-1]\/VxVfbms\/\" data-title=\"&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-VxVfbms&#039; &gt;Pausing at the Hump\nThe Pan Am Railways East Deerfield hump switcher pauses while crews prepare to continue shoving cars over the hump.&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-photonic-tooltip=\"Pausing at the Hump\nThe Pan Am Railways East Deerfield hump switcher pauses while crews prepare to continue shoving cars over the hump.\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt='' class='square' data-src='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-VxVfbms\/0\/McG6XFzqFKVTz2rcxz7mjK3bPHfmCGhJSH2K2q52K\/Ti\/20120128-420204365-_MG_4668-Ti.jpg' loading='lazy' width='100' height='67' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<figure class='photonic-level-1 photonic-thumb'>\n\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-Mq9sXNb\/0\/NSWNJ28vJCcpTWMpQXk8Rv7f5K8GNKDNM5CRLLT5C\/XL\/20120207-420204365-_MG_5965-XL.jpg' title='Lit up Stick Rail\nThe joint NECR\/PW\/CN Office Car Special continuing east on the Providence &amp; Worcester&#039;s Willimantic Branch in Plainfield, CT.  Took advantage of the lower afternoon light to get a little rail glint shot.' rel='lightbox-photonic-smug-stream-1' class='photonic-lb photonic-baguettebox baguettebox' data-photonic-media-type=\"image\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-photonic-deep=\"gallery[photonic-smug-album-1]\/Mq9sXNb\/\" data-title=\"&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-Mq9sXNb&#039; &gt;Lit up Stick Rail\nThe joint NECR\/PW\/CN Office Car Special continuing east on the Providence &amp; Worcester&#039;s Willimantic Branch in Plainfield, CT.  Took advantage of the lower afternoon light to get a little rail glint shot.&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-photonic-tooltip=\"Lit up Stick Rail\nThe joint NECR\/PW\/CN Office Car Special continuing east on the Providence &amp; Worcester&#039;s Willimantic Branch in Plainfield, CT.  Took advantage of the lower afternoon light to get a little rail glint shot.\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt='' class='square' data-src='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-Mq9sXNb\/0\/L6zH7nkNqVzthFMP2VKfqVWKCqzHhVw9r6zg8wJvf\/Ti\/20120207-420204365-_MG_5965-Ti.jpg' loading='lazy' width='100' height='67' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<figure class='photonic-level-1 photonic-thumb'>\n\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-RrNMgfb\/0\/LbJrSfXHztvmxB79QMzhqjpX8QcQtNpDtc4HvRSGR\/XL\/20120207-1320706060-_MG_2521-XL.jpg' title='NECR\/PW\/CN OCS-1\nThe joint Office Car Special is northbound on the P&amp;W&#039;s Norwich Branch through Thompson, CT along the French River.' rel='lightbox-photonic-smug-stream-1' class='photonic-lb photonic-baguettebox baguettebox' data-photonic-media-type=\"image\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-photonic-deep=\"gallery[photonic-smug-album-1]\/RrNMgfb\/\" data-title=\"&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-RrNMgfb&#039; &gt;NECR\/PW\/CN OCS-1\nThe joint Office Car Special is northbound on the P&amp;W&#039;s Norwich Branch through Thompson, CT along the French River.&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-photonic-tooltip=\"NECR\/PW\/CN OCS-1\nThe joint Office Car Special is northbound on the P&amp;W&#039;s Norwich Branch through Thompson, CT along the French River.\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt='' class='square' data-src='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-RrNMgfb\/0\/KcspgndNKPbdnhb5Qn3g6mMXZ6hwDM83SCpNvGBbX\/Ti\/20120207-1320706060-_MG_2521-Ti.jpg' loading='lazy' width='67' height='100' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<figure class='photonic-level-1 photonic-thumb'>\n\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-MdmW3cr\/0\/LS6Rdfs3mjQN6BqBVcSKpcm3TsbQBNmCdDCFqd5cq\/XL\/20120320-420204365-_MG_7667-XL.jpg' title='ESPN in the Blue Hour\nTook a ride out to Topton, PA to shoot the Eastern Penn power.  The only thing around was a former PBNE switcher sitting outside the shops.' rel='lightbox-photonic-smug-stream-1' class='photonic-lb photonic-baguettebox baguettebox' data-photonic-media-type=\"image\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-photonic-deep=\"gallery[photonic-smug-album-1]\/MdmW3cr\/\" data-title=\"&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-MdmW3cr&#039; &gt;ESPN in the Blue Hour\nTook a ride out to Topton, PA to shoot the Eastern Penn power.  The only thing around was a former PBNE switcher sitting outside the shops.&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-photonic-tooltip=\"ESPN in the Blue Hour\nTook a ride out to Topton, PA to shoot the Eastern Penn power.  The only thing around was a former PBNE switcher sitting outside the shops.\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt='' class='square' data-src='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-MdmW3cr\/0\/MgQcQpQtTRG5xfkHC5ZZH3bZsPWqdPfJkp37hQMcm\/Ti\/20120320-420204365-_MG_7667-Ti.jpg' loading='lazy' width='100' height='67' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<figure class='photonic-level-1 photonic-thumb'>\n\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-BdzckWC\/0\/KtLJ8F8cXJ93hPSxLH9p8BcXK4zMcjfJ8HVFG8Fr3\/XL\/20120330-1320706060-_MG_7576-XL.jpg' title='Over the Arch\nA Providence &amp; Worcester extra to Willimantic, CT heads over Kinsman Hill Road in Versailles, CT on the P&amp;W&#039;s Willimantic Branch on 3\/30\/12' rel='lightbox-photonic-smug-stream-1' class='photonic-lb photonic-baguettebox baguettebox' data-photonic-media-type=\"image\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-photonic-deep=\"gallery[photonic-smug-album-1]\/BdzckWC\/\" data-title=\"&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/photos.nanosphoto.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-BdzckWC&#039; &gt;Over the Arch\nA Providence &amp; Worcester extra to Willimantic, CT heads over Kinsman Hill Road in Versailles, CT on the P&amp;W&#039;s Willimantic Branch on 3\/30\/12&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-photonic-tooltip=\"Over the Arch\nA Providence &amp; Worcester extra to Willimantic, CT heads over Kinsman Hill Road in Versailles, CT on the P&amp;W&#039;s Willimantic Branch on 3\/30\/12\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt='' class='square' data-src='https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Railroads\/Best-of-2012\/January-February-and-March\/i-BdzckWC\/0\/L5g4VCJLW7vDDzp65dd4qrcZRBLLCcMJTDtqw9Zgz\/Ti\/20120330-1320706060-_MG_7576-Ti.jpg' loading='lazy' width='67' height='100' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t<\/div> <!-- .\/photonic-level-1-container -->\n\t<span id='photonic-smug-stream-1-container-end'><\/span>\n<\/div><!-- .photonic-stream or .photonic-panel -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually do a monolithic recap of the previous year&#8217;s photos, but this year I decided to do things a bit differently &#8211; I&#8217;ll be splitting it up into five posts. \u00a0My main reasoning behind this is I&#8217;ve been a bit, um, behind in posting to the blog here. \u00a0So to start to make up [&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":[14,529,17,7,47,245,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-3120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-night-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-east-penn-railroad","10":"tag-massachusetts","11":"tag-new-england-central","12":"tag-panam-railways","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-providence-worcester","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}