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Today was unpacking day at work – they moved our offices again over the weekend due to construction in the building. So I took a break this morning from sorting through the boxes and headed north to try to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2. On the way north, I got a little surprise. A good one…<\/p>\n
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I did end up getting out a bit later than normal, so I was hoping that I didn’t miss NR-2. So as usual, the scanner was on for the trip north.<\/p>\n
As I rolled past the Nautilus overlook park, I heard a marker chirp. Hmmm, maybe they were further south than I thought. So a quick 3-point turn and I was headed back south.<\/p>\n
Not long after that, the P&W frequency locked in – NR-2 was reporting that they were south of MP12 and 15 minutes out. OK, that meant that the chirp I heard would have been the NECR. So another turn and I headed for the USS Nautilus to see if I could catch them across the river.<\/p>\n
As I pulled into the parking lot, I saw NECR train 608 rolling across Smith Cove across the river in Waterford. I thought about one shot where I could get the train and the Nautilus in the same frame. A few moments later, the train rolled into position for the shot.<\/p>\n
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Not bad…and a look at the watch told me I had a few minutes to get my ass up to Mill Cove to catch NR-2. So off I went…<\/p>\n
Instead of my usual stop at Erickson Park, I went straight to the south end of the cove and got into position. Within a minute, NR-2 was calling south of milepost 5, and sounding for the crossing at Red Top. As the echo was fading, NR-2 rolled past MP4<\/p>\n
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And around the bend, with the Harvard Boat House in the background<\/p>\n
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Then with the NRG Cogeneration plant in Montville across the river<\/p>\n
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Then two white things caught my eye – a pair of swans were sitting by the causeway as NR-2 rolled past.<\/p>\n
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And these were real swans, not Steve’s Inflatable Wildlife<\/em>\u2122.<\/p>\n From there I decided to try to get them at the south end of Fairview yard.<\/p>\n Luckily the lights worked with me today, so I got there as NR-2 was rolling through the yard. The first shot I got was of Rod waving out the window at a neighbor of the railroad<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6079]\n Then a closer shot, getting some of the sky in<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6078]\n And a final going away shot, into the sun, this time in black & white<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6077]\n Following my usual script, I headed to the parking lot south of the Thames River drawbridge. On my way there the Shore Line Dispatcher informed NR-2 that he would be bringing them onto the corridor right away, so there wouldn’t be much of a wait.<\/p>\n Moments after I got into the parking lot, NR-2 rolled onto the drawbridge<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6076]\n And crossed over the moveable span<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6075]\n At that point I called it a day and made my way back to the office. I still had 5 boxes to unpack…and that killed the rest of the day.<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! Today was unpacking day at work – they moved our offices again over the weekend due to construction in the building. So I took a break this morning from sorting through the boxes and headed north to try to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2. On the way north, I got a little surprise. A […]<\/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-337","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\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"