{"id":405,"date":"2008-06-29T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/thames-river-drawbridge-swap-part-one\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T21:35:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:35:19","slug":"thames-river-drawbridge-swap-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/thames-river-drawbridge-swap-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames River Drawbridge Swap – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, finally caught up. Well, almost. Before our trip to Hershey, PA this past Tuesday, I was able to head down to Groton to get a few shots of the drawbridge as the contractors were preparing to pull the old bascule span out. Unfortunatley, it took them longer to pull it, so I didn’t get any shots of the span actually being pulled out. Oh, well, you can’t win ’em all, I guess… At least I got a few shots of the old bridge before it was changed out.<\/p>\n

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I got down to Groton early – about 8am – to find a nice calm Thames River, so I got a couple reflection shots right off the bat from the closest parking lot to the bridge.<\/p>\n

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Even at this hour there was a handful of people there for the day’s events, so I got a shot of a couple of them.<\/p>\n

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And one shot with some of the wildflowers in the foreground<\/p>\n

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Not long after that, a tug brought a barge north from Electric Boat to the Mohawk shipyard north of the drawbridge<\/p>\n

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Throwing the telephoto on, I got a closeup shot of some Amtrak workers on the bridge preparing to lift the span out<\/p>\n

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Then the tugboat came back south<\/p>\n

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And an unusual Blackhawk helicopter buzzed overhead<\/p>\n

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A couple more bridge shots<\/p>\n

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Then a US Coast Guard cutter came into the scene, but if you look aboard, you’ll notice that there’s a photographer (probably from the New London Day<\/em><\/a>) on board.<\/p>\n

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And a quick shot of some of the flowers I was stepping on<\/p>\n

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But as we were waiting for the span to be pulled out, apparently they hit a snag on the hinge side, and contractors were cutting some of the metal, so I got a telephoto shot of some of the billowing smoke<\/p>\n

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Not long after that, another tugboat came along, but this time with a videographer aboard taking some footage.<\/p>\n

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Then the cutting went to the other side of the span, but it sounded like they were having issues with the oxygen tanks, and I got a shot of one of the tanks venting a bit of O2<\/p>\n

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Just then I noticed what time it was, and had to head out. So I got one last shot of the crowd watching the action. Also, to the left of the frame were two Groton fire engines watching the action as well.<\/p>\n

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And that was it for this day. As it turned out, the span didn’t get pulled until early afternoon, so there was no way I would catch it. Next post, though, you’ll see the new span in place, and the old span being taken away on its final journey – to the scrapper.<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, finally caught up. Well, almost. Before our trip to Hershey, PA this past Tuesday, I was able to head down to Groton to get a few shots of the drawbridge as the contractors were preparing to pull the old bascule span out. Unfortunatley, it took them longer to pull it, so I didn’t get […]<\/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-405","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\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}