{"id":425,"date":"2008-08-28T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/821-pw-nr-2-at-mill-cove-and-a-pair-of-amtraks-over-the-thames\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:27:42","slug":"821-pw-nr-2-at-mill-cove-and-a-pair-of-amtraks-over-the-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/821-pw-nr-2-at-mill-cove-and-a-pair-of-amtraks-over-the-thames\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/21 – P&W NR-2 at Mill Cove, and a pair of Amtraks over the Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Getting closer…now we’re up to what I shot last week! Providence & Worcester train NR-2 shifted their schedule recently. They’re now coming into Groton around 8:30AM, which actually makes it easier for me to get out and catch them a bit more often than I have been. So last week, Nick Palazini contacted me about possibly meeting up to catch NR-2 in Ledyard. With the way things looked, I could make it out. So he gave me a call when NR-2 hit the detector at Jewett City. About 15 minutes later, I headed out to meet up with Nick at Mill Cove.<\/p>\n

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As I pulled down to the bottom of Long Cove Road, I saw Nick and another person standing at the south end of the cove. After I parked, Nick introduced me to Josh Oparowski, another photographer who was tagging along with him. We shot the shit for a little bit while waiting for NR-2 to head our way. After a little bit, we heard horns to the north as NR-2 blew for the crossings at Dow Chemical near milepost 5. So we moved into position.<\/p>\n

While getting set up, a tug with a barge of junk headed north in the Thames, so of course I had to get a couple shots of it.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7718] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7717]\n

Too bad they weren’t a couple minutes later – would have made a nice shot with NR-2 crossing in front of it…<\/p>\n

And like I usually do when I’m out with other photogs, I got a shot of Nick & Josh taking up their position.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7716]\n

A few moments later, NR-2 sounded for the crossing at Red Top and rolled into view<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7715]\n

Then a wider shot with the Harvard Boat House in the frame<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7714]\n

And I noticed some unusual loads in the middle of the train.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7713]\n

Looks like some precast concrete tanks.<\/p>\n

Then a couple shots of the power heading over the inlet to Mill Cove, as a fisherman fishes from the south abutment<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7712] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7711]\n

From there it was off to the parking lot south of the Thames River drawbridge to hopefully catch NR-2 crossing the river. Looking at my watch, I should have enough time to catch them before having to get back to the office.<\/p>\n

While waiting there, a pair of Acelas passed over the Thames – one in each direction.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7710] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7709] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7708]\n

And while we were waiting, Josh got a shot across the river.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7707]\n

Just then, the horn on the drawbridge sounded indicating an opening. Well, it looks like I won’t be catching NR-2 over the bridge after all. A couple seconds after opening up for river traffic, we saw that the US Coast Guard cutter Sailfish <\/em>was the ship that requested the opening. So I got a few shots of her heading under the bridge and past us.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:7706] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7705] [cpg_imagefixthumb:7704]\n

And I had to call it a morning at that point. Of course, just as I was passing by Electric Boat to the south, NR-2 was cleared to head onto the Shore Line. Oh, well, can’t win ’em all…<\/p>\n

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

Getting closer…now we’re up to what I shot last week! Providence & Worcester train NR-2 shifted their schedule recently. They’re now coming into Groton around 8:30AM, which actually makes it easier for me to get out and catch them a bit more often than I have been. So last week, Nick Palazini contacted me about […]<\/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":[83,13,14,21,25,24,160],"class_list":{"0":"post-425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nautical-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-acela","9":"tag-amtrak","10":"tag-connecticut","11":"tag-ledyard","12":"tag-mill-cove","13":"tag-thames-river","14":"tag-us-coast-guard","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}