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Taking advantage of the beautiful weather on Thursday I headed out for a walk.\u00a0 I figured for something different I’d head to Stoddard Hill and try and catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south.\u00a0 Well, for once I didn’t catch NR-2, but I did catch a couple other things…<\/p>\n
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So I headed out just as the fog was starting to lift around the south end of the Thames River – with my sights set on Stoddard Hill up in northern Ledyard, I was hoping that the fog would also be lifting there.\u00a0 By the time I got up there, the fog was still quite thick.\u00a0 But I decided to head out trackside by the river when I saw fellow photographer Bob LaMay was already there.\u00a0 And something encouraging happened on my way up Route 12 – I caught a portion of the conversation between NR-2 and the dispatcher.\u00a0 I guess that they must have been southbound out of Plainfield, putting them a good 40 minutes from our position.<\/p>\n
As I was walking down the tracks head for Bob’s position at the south end of Stoddard Cove, he whistled, and pointed behind me.\u00a0 I turned around and saw a P&W hyrail heading towards me.\u00a0 I let him pass, and I got a couple shots of him continuing south.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8783] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8782]\n
OK, the way things usually went, NR-2 was right behind the hyrail.\u00a0 So I continued out to where Bob was standing to prepare for NR-2s arrival.<\/p>\n
After chatting with Bob for a while, and still no sign of NR-2, I heard something odd on the scanner.\u00a0 The dispatcher acknowledged NR-3 was heading south.\u00a0 Hmm, that’s odd.\u00a0 Still haven’t heard NR-2 hit Jewett City yet.<\/p>\n
A little more waiting, and we hear NR-3 hit the Jewett City detector.\u00a0 So where the heck is NR-2?\u00a0 Maybe both were coming down together?\u00a0 Time would tell.<\/p>\n
Now that we have a position on the train, I walked back to the car to get a little tool to improve things – a bow saw.\u00a0 Yeah, while we were waiting, we did a little “landscaping” along the river.<\/p>\n
A little while later, we saw a set of headlights to the north – at least we’d get out answer if the trains were traveling together.\u00a0 As they came out of the brush up in Preston, we saw it was only NR-3.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8781]\n
Then a shot as they crossed into Ledyard<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8780]\n
And finally into the sunlight near Stoddard Cove<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8779]\n
Then rolling past a fisherman<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8778]\n
And a vertical shot passing by us, and showing off our new clear view<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8777]\n
Then finally a shot of the trailing power passing the fisherman<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8776]\n
Satisfied with what we got, we headed back to the car – but still confused as to where NR-2 was.\u00a0 As we got closer to the car, an idea popped in my head.\u00a0 Since the P&W abolished the NR-4 job, which handled the NECR interchange in Willimantic, maybe NR-2 went to Willimantic.\u00a0 Since I have a job to get back to and Bob is retired, he went to Willimantic to check on things. \u00a0 As it turned out, NR-2 did head out to Willimantic to work the interchange.\u00a0 Too bad I couldn’t catch it – at least someone did.<\/p>\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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