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Back home today, from my 2 day trip down to New Jersey for work.\u00a0 This morning I was able to get out for a nice walk.\u00a0 I decided to mix things up and go a bit further north to the Stoddard Cove area, and hopefully catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south along the Thames River.\u00a0 Well, as things worked out, I managed to get a nice walk in, along with a few pictures of NR-2 skirting the Thames under some brisk winds.<\/p>\n
Not wanting to pass up a beautiful, but cold, morning, I headed out at my usual time hoping to take a walk while shooting P&W train NR-2.\u00a0 So I headed for my usual spot – Mill Cove – to see if I could catch them there.\u00a0 Well, the entire trip up, the scanner was silent – I guess they were running late.\u00a0 So I figured I’d push further north and see if I could catch them around Stoddard Cove.<\/p>\n
As I was heading up Military Highway towards Route 12, the scanner woke up, but instead of what I expected (perhaps a “south of MP12” call), it was the Worcester dispatcher acknowledging NR-2s passing through the Jewett City detector.\u00a0 OK, I guess they were running late.\u00a0 But that still worked.\u00a0 I figured I had enough time to get a little breakfast in me, and still get to Stoddard Cove, and take my hike.<\/p>\n
After I got my bagel sandwich, I headed north on 12 towards Stoddard.\u00a0 About a half mile away, NR-2 reported that they were south of MP14, and about 25 minutes out of the sub base.\u00a0 I figured that gave me just enough time to get to Stoddard Hill, park the truck, and take the long walk north to <\/span>Poquetanuck Cove.\u00a0 Hey, I haven’t shot there in a while, so it was worth a shot.<\/p>\n After the nearly half mile hike, I got into position and picked my angle near the bridge spanning not only the inlet to the cove, but also the Preston\/Ledyard town line.\u00a0 A few minutes later, a chirp came across the scanner, and a few moments later a trio of headlights to the north.\u00a0 Soon after passing under the Route 2A bridge, NR-2 skirted along the Thames River, coming into view.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8497]\n After ducking behind some brush, the train again came into view, rounding the bend to the north of the bridge.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8496]\n You’ll note that there’s loaded stone cars on the train.\u00a0 I guess stone season is early this year!<\/p>\n Anyways, the train then pulled across the bridge, and into Ledyard<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8495] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8494]\n Switching to the 20D with the wide angle, I got a blur shot of NR-2 rolling past me.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8493]\n Finally are a couple going away shots of NR-2 heading out of view.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8492] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8491]\n And that was it for photos.\u00a0 I hiked my way back to the parking lot and the warmth of my truck.\u00a0 From there I headed south, and did end up catching up to NR-2 in Fairview.\u00a0 But they were switching out Spicer Gas, and I couldn’t stick around.\u00a0 So the gear went back into the bag, and I went back to the office for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! Back home today, from my 2 day trip down to New Jersey for work.\u00a0 This morning I was able to get out for a nice walk.\u00a0 I decided to mix things up and go a bit further north to the Stoddard Cove area, and hopefully catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south along the […]<\/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":[14,21,22,60,102,8,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-ledyard","9":"tag-nr-2","10":"tag-poquetanuck-cove","11":"tag-preston","12":"tag-providence-worcester","13":"tag-thames-river","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"