![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_20090423-_MG_4987.jpg?resize=150%2C100\")
As things worked out yesterday, I was able to get out and take advantage of the abundant sunshine that graced southeastern Connecticut in the morning.\u00a0 Not only was the weather beautiful, but I was also able to catch two trains on two different railroads within a matter of minutes.\u00a0 And to top things off, and I found a new spot to shoot the Providence & Worcester from.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
So a few minutes opened up in my schedule yesterday, and I headed out to see what I could catch.\u00a0 It was a bit later than usual, so I wasn’t too hopeful on catching the P&W along the Thames, but I’ll take what could get.<\/p>\n
On my way north, the scanner woke up with NR-2 reporting that they were south of MP5.\u00a0 Hmmm, about the only place I could try and get to is the USS Nautilus or Fairview.\u00a0 I figured I’ll try the Nautilus.<\/p>\n
As I was heading up Military Highway, a thought crossed my mind.\u00a0 The spot where I shot a couple submarines just south of the Nautilus is quite open, and might be worth a try shooting NR-2 there.\u00a0 What the hell, it was worth a try.<\/p>\n
Just as I was parking the car, I could see NR-2 coming through the crossing to the north at the Sub Force Museum\/USS Nautilus.\u00a0 A quick hustle down the hill, and I was in position for what turned out to be a pretty nice angle!<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8838] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8837]\n
Pretty cool!\u00a0 So next I figured I’d head to the parking lot south of the Thames River drawbridge and catch them heading across.<\/p>\n
While I was waiting in the lot by the river, I overheard an Amtrak foreman asking NR-2 if they were heading east.\u00a0 They replied nope, they were heading to Midway first.\u00a0 OK, well that changes things!\u00a0 So I hopped back in the car and headed over to the spot east of the Groton tower.<\/p>\n
While waiting there, Amtrak 190 came into the picture – apparently NR-2 would be following them.\u00a0 So of course I got a few shots of 190 approaching and speeding past me.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8836] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8835] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8834] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8833] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8832]\n
Not more than a couple minutes after 190 cleared me, it was NR-2s turn to come out onto the Northeast Corridor, cross over to track 4, and head down to Tilcon down by Midway.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8831] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8830] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8829] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8828] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8827][cpg_imagefixthumb:8826] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8825]\n
With two trains, at two locations within a matter of a half an hour in the bag, I figured I had reached my bag limit.\u00a0 So I packed up and headed back to the office.<\/p>\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As things worked out yesterday, I was able to get out and take advantage of the abundant sunshine that graced southeastern Connecticut in the morning.\u00a0 Not only was the weather beautiful, but I was also able to catch two trains on two different railroads within a matter of minutes.\u00a0 And to top things off, and […]<\/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":[13,14,68,8,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-amtrak","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-groton","10":"tag-providence-worcester","11":"tag-thames-river","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}