{"id":454,"date":"2008-11-05T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T11:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/oct-20th-pw-nr2-some-railfans-from-ct-nj-and-a-virgina-class-sub\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T11:07:04","slug":"oct-20th-pw-nr2-some-railfans-from-ct-nj-and-a-virgina-class-sub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/oct-20th-pw-nr2-some-railfans-from-ct-nj-and-a-virgina-class-sub\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 20th &#8211; P&#038;W NR2, some railfans from CT &#038; NJ and a Virgina class sub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_20081020-_MG_4393.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Yeah, once again I&#8217;m a bit behind on postings.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some stuff from back on October 20th where I came across Providence &amp; Worcester train NR-2, some railfans from New Jersey and Connecticut and a Virginia class fast attack submarine heading back to the US Navy Sub Base in Groton.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>OK, we&#8217;ll keep things brief.\u00a0 I was able to head out for a bit back on the 20th, and came across some railfans up by Mill Cove waiting for P&amp;W train NR-2 to come onto the scene.\u00a0 There were 3 guys up from NJ, and Mark Schenking all waiting down at the south end of the cove.\u00a0 After a quick conversation, NR-2 came onto the scene and we did our things.\u00a0 Then we went our seperate ways &#8211; Mark and the guys from the Garden State continued south on Route 12, while I headed for Military Highway to try and catch NR-2 in Fairview, then crossing the Thames.\u00a0 But I got a little surprise.<\/p>\n<p>While heading down Military Higway, I saw a Virginia class sub heading north in the Thames.\u00a0 So a quick U-turn was in order to get a few shots of her heading back to the sub base (I think it&#8217;s the <em>USS New Hampshire<\/em> undergoing sea trials prior to commissioning, but I can&#8217;t be 100% sure).<\/p>\n<p>After that, I snagged a few shots of NR-2 crossing the Thames and rolling through New London and called it a morning.\u00a0 And now for what you&#8217;ve come here for &#8211; the pictures.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n[cpg_album:468]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, once again I&#8217;m a bit behind on postings.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some stuff from back on October 20th where I came across Providence &amp; Worcester train NR-2, some railfans from New Jersey and Connecticut and a Virginia class fast attack submarine heading back to the US Navy Sub Base in Groton.<\/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":[14,21,25,59,22,8,97,24,98,190,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nautical-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-ledyard","10":"tag-mill-cove","11":"tag-new-london","12":"tag-nr-2","13":"tag-providence-worcester","14":"tag-submarine","15":"tag-thames-river","16":"tag-us-navy","17":"tag-uscg-eagle","18":"tag-virginia-class","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}