{"id":514,"date":"2009-03-16T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/necr-and-the-pw-at-night\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T16:37:39","slug":"necr-and-the-pw-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/necr-and-the-pw-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"NECR and the P&W at night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, more night stuff, and like Saturday night, it was a last-minute decision to do.\u00a0 At the CERM meeting on Sunday night, one of the members mentioned that there was an NECR train tied down in the Willimantic yard.\u00a0 Well, I was kicking myself for not bringing my camera & Lumedyne.\u00a0 But home is a scant 5 minutes away.\u00a0 The question was this, though, would I make it back in time before the new NECR crew went on duty to take the train south?<\/p>\n

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Yep, I did make it back in time, but looking at my watch as I parked the car one thing stood out in my mind – Providence & Worcester train NR-4 hadn’t been into town yet, and should be around at any time.\u00a0 Maybe I could get a two-fer?\u00a0 To be safe, I took my scanner with me while I was prowling around in the dark.<\/p>\n

I started out with a standard shot of the train’s power sitting next to the rest of the train – it looks like they split it up to keep the main & runaround clear for NR-4s arrival.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8589]\n

Then one using the Willimantic station sign to frame the lead GP38<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8588]\n

And one looking down between the two rows of track.\u00a0 This one was fun to light – if you notice I stood between two cars to pop the flash on the second unit.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8587]\n

For the last shot, I also got the old Hurley’s building in the frame.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8586]\n

As I was shooting this one, I heard some crackled communications over the radio on the P&W channel.\u00a0 Sounded like NR-4 was in town.\u00a0 So I made my way back to the car.\u00a0 Just as I got there, I heard the unmistakable chug-chug of a GE B39-8 in the distance.\u00a0 Moments later, a trio of headlights appeared in the darkness from under the Frog Bridge.\u00a0 As they began to cross the Willimantic River, the lights started to reflect off of the railheads.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8585]\n

Then as they got closer, ribbons of light appeared out of the darkness.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8584]\n

As they rolled past me, I switched to the telephoto to get a couple shots as they headed for Bridge Street.\u00a0 First, you can see the power heading over the switch, and towards the Bridge Street crossing<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8583]\n

Then the markers as the train continues to snake along the NECR main.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8582]\n

And finally, with the train at rest, the conductor pulls the marker off of the rear of the train, prior to backing the cars into the runaround.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8581]\n

At that point I decided to call it a night.\u00a0 Not bad for a quick run back into Willi.<\/p>\n

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

Yep, more night stuff, and like Saturday night, it was a last-minute decision to do.\u00a0 At the CERM meeting on Sunday night, one of the members mentioned that there was an NECR train tied down in the Willimantic yard.\u00a0 Well, I was kicking myself for not bringing my camera & Lumedyne.\u00a0 But home is a […]<\/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":[31,2],"tags":[14,110,166,7,111,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-night-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-lumedyne","10":"tag-nerwne","11":"tag-new-england-central","12":"tag-night","13":"tag-willimantic","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}