{"id":504,"date":"2009-02-17T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/planting-the-seed\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:23:32","slug":"planting-the-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/planting-the-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting the SEED"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little double entendre in today’s title.\u00a0 On President’s Day, we took advantage of my day off from work and took the girls up to Magic Wings in Deerfield, MA – something they’ve been asking to do since Katina got out of the hospital back in December.\u00a0 And as we usually do when we hit Magic Wings, we take a swing by PanAm Railway’s East Deerfield yard to see what’s going on.\u00a0 Usually only I exit the car.\u00a0 Yesterday, three of us were on the Railfan Bridge watching the action.\u00a0 And two of us were taking pictures.<\/p>\n

Flashing back a bit, for Christmas this year, we decided Katina was old enough at 6 to work a point & shoot digital camera.\u00a0 So we gave her Jill’s Canon S500 – a simple Canon Digital Elph that takes pretty good pictures.\u00a0 After teaching her how to use it, she loves it and goes around snapping pictures of everything in sight.\u00a0 Talk about making a father’s heart glow!<\/p>\n

So yesterday we went to Magic Wings, and she was gleefully going around snapping pictures of flowers, butterflies and birds in the sanctuary located a few miles south of PAR’s East Deerfield yard.\u00a0 When we were done there, we mounted up and headed north to EDY.<\/p>\n

When we first got there, not much was going on, so I snapped a shot of the power sitting in the pit<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8509]\n

And the pair of B&M plows sitting off on the side.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8508]\n

With not much else going on, I went back to the car.\u00a0 But I had a feeling – so I grabbed my scanner, and my 20D and started walking up to the bridge over the west end of the yard.\u00a0 As I was getting to the top, I heard the unmistakable sound of a turbocharger to the west.\u00a0 A quick sprint to the top of the bridge, and I was faced with an eastbound train pulling up to the signal.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8507] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8506] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8505]\n

Listening to the scanner, the job turned out to be SEED – Selkirk, NY to East Deerfield.\u00a0 With them sitting there, I walked back to the car.\u00a0 When I got there, I asked Katina if she wanted to get a picture of a train, and her answer was a very enthusiastic YES!\u00a0 So I drove us a little closer, and the two of us got out and walked to the top of the bridge.\u00a0 When we got there, Katina didn’t hesitate to get a shot of SEED sitting at the signal.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8504]\n

At that point, a local railfan Richard (Check out his website here<\/a>) pulled up and we began chatting.\u00a0 Soon after that, my wife beeped the horn in the car, and motioned that Callie wanted to come up too.\u00a0 With the wave of my hand, the door opened, and the little one made here way up to the bridge to watch the action with us.<\/p>\n

As she got to us, SEED began to move into the yard.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8503] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8502]\n

And as the train rolled under the bridge, we moved to the other side, where the girls watched the train pass below.\u00a0 Of course, Katina was getting shots nearly the entire time the train rolled underneath.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8501] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8500] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8499]\n

Then as the train continued to roll by, I got a little portrait of the girls smiling from ear to ear.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8498]\n

Hopefully the passing of SEED has planted the seed of railfanning in my girls.\u00a0 Time will tell if it takes root or not…\u00a0 Either way, they enjoyed the time on Railfan Bridge watching the train with daddy.\u00a0 What more can I ask for?<\/p>\n

As for Katina’s shots – I didn’t get a chance to pull them off of her card yet.\u00a0 When I was doing mine, she was outside shooting in the yard.\u00a0 I couldn’t take the camera from her – gotta keep the fire going!<\/p>\n

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

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