{"id":3740,"date":"2014-10-24T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:17:59","slug":"nine-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/nine-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As you can probably tell, I haven’t been able to head out and shoot much of late – for a number of reasons. \u00a0So instead of letting things further stagnate here, I decided to go back in time and dig out some older photos I took before I implemented the blog (first blog post is from February 2007). \u00a0And for our first edition of X\u00a0years<\/strong> ago today<\/em><\/strong> I present you a brief chase of the New England Central Railroad between Palmer, Mass. and Willington, Conn – with a little bit of Providence & Worcester, CSX and Mass. Central thrown into the mix for good measure – as I photographed it on October 24, 2005.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2005, the New England Central Railroad was a bit power short, so they would from time to time lease power from other nearby roads to get them through. \u00a0On the day I headed up to Palmer, there was a Providence & Worcester GP-40 on the property, and the\u00a0608 was going to take it south with their train.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2005, the New England Central Railroad leased one of the Providence & Worcester’s GP40s during a power shortage. Here the crew of train 608 is getting ready in Palmer, MA before heading south to Willimantic with their train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After getting the power together, the conductor waited for the engineer to move out onto the main, where they could start assembling their train.<\/p>\n

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A New England Central Railroad conductor waits at a switch in the railroad’s Palmer, MA yard as his engineer pulls his power out onto the main.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A quick drive to the south end of the yard caught them working on assembling the southbound cars, destined for Willimantic.<\/p>\n

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A look at the south end of the New England Central Railroad’s Palmer, MA yard as NECR train 608 prepares to head south to Willimantic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As they were moving cars around that end, I headed back up to the diamond area – where CSX”s Boston Sub crosses the NECR – hoping to catch something different. \u00a0Well, different is sure what I got – the Massachusetts Central local was working the CSX interchange yard north of the CSX main. \u00a0And as they were shoving cars around, a CSX local approached from the east as light engines.<\/p>\n

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A Mass Central local works the CSX interchange as a CSX light engine move approaches on the controlled siding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I noticed that the light engines were slowing down on the controlled siding – that meant one thing, that there should be an eastbound due by any time now. \u00a0Well, within a matter of seconds, I heard that eastbound behind me. \u00a0So I spun around, and caught them crossing the NECR diamond.<\/p>\n

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An Eastbound CSX freight crosses the diamond in Palmer, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then another quick 180 to catch the 3-way meet<\/p>\n

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The eastbound freight, westbound light engines and Mass Central local meet in Palmer, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that I filled up my quota of different, I headed south to chase 608 as they made their way towards Willimantic.<\/p>\n

First stop was the waterfall near Bliss Street in Monson, Mass – and the fall foliage sure helped!<\/p>\n

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NECR train 608 heads south over Bliss Street in Monson, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next up was a run to the crest of the State Line Grade in southern Monson – nearly to the Connecticut state line.<\/p>\n

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New England Central train 608 crests the State Line Grade in Monson, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final shot of that day was near milepost 48, where Stafford, Ellington and Willington meet.<\/p>\n

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New England Central Railroad train 608 heads south past MP48 in Willington, Connecticut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Satisfied with what I got on the camera, I headed home instead of continuing the chase south to Willimantic.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for the next edition, and thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you can probably tell, I haven’t been able to head out and shoot much of late – for a number of reasons. \u00a0So instead of letting things further stagnate here, I decided to go back in time and dig out some older photos I took before I implemented the blog (first blog post is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3899,"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":[14,15,17,558,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-3740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-csx","10":"tag-massachusetts","11":"tag-massachusetts-central-railroad","12":"tag-new-england-central","13":"tag-providence-worcester","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","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=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/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=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}