{"id":3704,"date":"2014-06-22T23:07:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2014-06-22T23:07:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:07:24","slug":"dinner-train-cab-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/dinner-train-cab-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Train Cab Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3705\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14485678855_3442dfa39f_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"14485678855_3442dfa39f_m\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/>To start off the month of June, I rode along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexsteamtrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Railroad<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/essexsteamtrain.com\/the-dinner-train\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essex Clipper Dinner Train<\/a>. \u00a0But not as a passenger enjoying the on-board dinner with my wife, as we usually do every summer. \u00a0Nope, instead I rode up in the head end with the engineer for the 2 1\/2 hour ride from Essex to Haddam and back, enjoying the scenery along the Connecticut River valley. \u00a0Well, and of course snapping a few pictures along the way.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two days\u00a0after my gallery exhibit opening at Essex (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/a-dozen-miles-in-a-decade-art-gallery-exhibit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info here<\/a> if you don&#8217;t know about it yet&#8230;), I climbed aboard the Valley Railroad&#8217;s 0900 in Essex to ride along with the Essex Clipper Dinner Train. \u00a0While taking the 2 1\/2 hour ride along the banks of the Connecticut River, I took quite a few photos &#8211; like usual, I was trying to mix it up a bit, with some inside the cab, and some outside. \u00a0And of course, a <em>huge<\/em> thanks to the Valley Railroad and the crew of the Dinner Train for letting me tag along for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>OK, enough words &#8211; here&#8217;s the photos, all 39 of them. \u00a0As usual, check &#8217;em out, and feel free to leave comments, either here on the blog, or over on Flickr on each individual photo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">[AFG_gallery id=&#8217;25&#8217;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start off the month of June, I rode along with the Valley Railroad&#8216;s Essex Clipper Dinner Train. \u00a0But not as a passenger enjoying the on-board dinner with my wife, as we usually do every summer. \u00a0Nope, instead I rode up in the head end with the engineer for the 2 1\/2 hour ride from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3746,"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":[14,554,180,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-3704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-dinner-train","10":"tag-essex","11":"tag-valley-railroad","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}