{"id":422,"date":"2008-08-27T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/nearly-a-month-ago-pw-nr2-and-amtrak-in-groton\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:43:42","slug":"nearly-a-month-ago-pw-nr2-and-amtrak-in-groton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/nearly-a-month-ago-pw-nr2-and-amtrak-in-groton\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a month ago – P&W NR2 and Amtrak in Groton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Yeah, you guessed it, I’m behind again. Time for a flurry of updates over the next day or so to catch up. Here’s installment #1 on that batch – from July 31st. That was a day that Nick Palazini, David Telesha and Jon (I can’t for the life of me remember his last name) came down chasing Providence & Worcester train NR-2 from Plainfield. They gave me a call once they left Plainfield, and we tried to meet up at Mill Cove in Ledyard. Well, that didn’t work for me – I had to come into work late because I had to wait at the house for an inspector from the town (Lebanon is going through property revaluation, so they need to inspect every house), and I never made it to Mill Cove. I did, however catch them in Groton before they hit the Northeast Corridor.<\/p>\n

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As I had mentioned, Nick gave me a call when NR-2 was heading out of Plainfield, and at that time I was about ready to leave the house. Well, between traffic and stoplights, I wasn’t able to get far enough ahead of them to get to Mill Cove in time. So I tried to catch them at the USS Nautilus<\/em> overlook park south of the sub base. I pulled in there just as the gates were going down and caught them there. But looking across the river I noticed something – the MV Carolyn Chouest<\/em> was heading north in the river. As a side note, the Chouest <\/em>normally works with the Navy research sub NR-1, but the NR-1 finished its last mission, and is in the process of being decomissioned. Anyways, I got a couple shots of NR-2 heading south, as the Chouest <\/em>was heading north.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7633] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7632]\n

From there, it was off to the Shore Line somewhere. As I passed under the tracks on Fairview ave, I heard horns to the west – it sounded like an Acela was heading across the bridge. So I set up for a shot on the side of Fairview Ave, and got a shot of the trailing power car crossing over Fairview.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7631]\n

As they passed by, I headed for the parking lot south of the Groton wye to meet up with Nick, David & Jon. While there, we were trying to figure out where NR-2 would be going – west or east? A couple minutes later, we could hear the train begin to pull to the north, then come into view, and head down the east leg.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7630]\n

OK, they’re heading to Tilcon in Groton first. Now could we make it down behind the motel and get a shot of the train crossing over to track 4? It was worth a try…<\/p>\n

Well, we did make it down there in time, and got a series of shots of NR-2 heading past us.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7629] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7628] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7627] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7626] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7625]\n

Not long after NR-2 headed out of sight, we heard horns to the west – sounded like a regional was heading our way. A couple minutes later, an eastbound Amtrak Northeast Regional – Amtrak train 190 – came into view, and rolled past us.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7624] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7623] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7622]\n

Not too bad. As we stood there and chatted for a bit, I heard something on the scanner about a light engine move heading east for the bridge. Interesting…well, it was worth waiting around to catch this before heading into the office.<\/p>\n

A minute or so later, a lone P42DC rolled into view past the Groton Tower and towards us<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7621] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7620]\n

As the locomotive got closer to us, the engineer gave us a smoke & flame show.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7619] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7618] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7617]\n

I guess as the unit passed by us, the conductor gave us the one finger salute too…wish I got a shot of that…<\/p>\n

As an interesting side note, Mark Shenking got a shot of both the light engine move and 190 at Old Saybrook earlier that morning. Check it out here<\/a> if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

After the engine headed past us, we parted ways, and I headed to work.<\/p>\n

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

Yeah, you guessed it, I’m behind again. Time for a flurry of updates over the next day or so to catch up. Here’s installment #1 on that batch – from July 31st. That was a day that Nick Palazini, David Telesha and Jon (I can’t for the life of me remember his last name) came […]<\/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":[13,14,68,167,97,24,98,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-amtrak","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-groton","10":"tag-mv-carolyn-chouest","11":"tag-submarine","12":"tag-thames-river","13":"tag-us-navy","14":"tag-uss-nautilus","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}