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I actually got out to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 yesterday, but it was a close call for sure. And the delay in getting this posting online is because of that little celestial event last night – the total lunar eclipse. Yep, I got some shots of that too…more on that later, though. First things first…<\/p>\n
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On the way into work, as I was crossing over the Gold Star bridge spanning the Thames River, I noticed that the Amtrak drawbridge was open to river traffic. Curious as to what was passing beneath – this time of year, it’s typically closed since the only things that require it to be open are commercial or military traffic – I headed down Thames Street in Groton.<\/p>\n
As I pulled into the parking lot overlooking the Thames, I saw an empty coal barge heading south. So I got a few shots of the barge Somerset<\/em>, her tug East Coast<\/em>, the New London Harbor pilot, and an escort tug – the Thameship<\/em>.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6093] [cpg_imagefixthumb:6092] [cpg_imagefixthumb:6091] [cpg_imagefixthumb:6090] [cpg_imagefixthumb:6089]\n Not a bad start to the day. Nice light and some shipping. On to work, though.<\/p>\n Fast forward a few hours. I decided to duck out for a bit and take advantage of the nice sunny skies, and a hole in my schedule. So I began my usual trek north to catch P&W train NR-2 somewhere.<\/p>\n As I was heading north towards Military Highway, the scanner woke up with the Amtrak Shore Line dispatcher wanting to talk to NR-2. Damn…that meant they were in Groton already. And I was a little while away from the river bank. So I figured I’d try to make it to the lobster company parking lot and catch NR-2 in New London. From the sounds of things, it seemed that NR-2 was already on the move…<\/p>\n As soon as I got into the parking lot, I could see NR-2 pulling through the station across the river. Just enough time to catch them heading for Shaw’s Cove. And boy was it a short train – one locomotive and two cars!<\/p>\n First shot was of the train rolling past the waterfront walkway in New London<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6088]\n Then a boat from Electric Boat pulled past me – so I couldn’t pass up getting it into the frame with the really short train<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6087]\n And crossing the swing bridge<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6086]\n Finally, the train rolling towards the south end of the bridge<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:6085]\n And that was it for the morning. A really quick jaunt out, netting some passable photos…<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! I actually got out to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 yesterday, but it was a close call for sure. And the delay in getting this posting online is because of that little celestial event last night – the total lunar eclipse. Yep, I got some shots of that too…more on that later, though. First […]<\/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-338","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\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"