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A sunny day can’t go without pictures (yeah, neither can a cloudy, rainy, foggy or snowy day either, but you get my drift), so I headed out to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 this morning at one of my usual spots. So once I left, I fired up my scanner and started my 7 minute trek north. Today’s action would be a little bit different from the norm – for two reasons…<\/p>\n
As I was driving up Military Highway towards the USS Nautilus<\/em>, the scanner came alive. A P&W track car was in the area, and reported that he was south of MP5, and about 15 minutes from the Sub Base. Perfect, by the time I got to Mill Cove, the track car should be in the picture. Hopefully, NR-2 wasn’t far behind either.<\/p>\n I pulled into the parking area of Erickson Park, grabbed my gear, and headed towards the water. The first thing I noticed was the brush along the entire length of the causeway was cut! They must have come through yesterday and cleaned things up (thank you P&W MoW department!). Ahhhh, now this opens up some new possibilities for the future. Well, not more than a few minutes later, the track car made its appearance, rolling along, and stopping every so often to check things out. About midway along the causeway, a pair of swans decided to check out what was going on also.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2744] [cpg_imagefixthumb:2743] [cpg_imagefixthumb:2742]\n Then it was back to the car to listen to the scanner for NR-2s appearance. They soon reported to the Worcester dispatcher that they were finishing up their work at Dow and were about 20 minutes from the Sub Base’s north gate. So I had a nice relaxing rest in the car waiting for them to show up. With a faint horn to the north, it was time to head back down towards the water. As I was waiting, the two swans from before made their way to the shoreline, and were grazing around for food. One decided to pose for me, so I snapped his picture.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2741]\n Moments later, NR-2 made their apperance on the newly cut causeway with a pair of GEs elephant-style.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2740]\n But as they passed it revealed an extremely overpowered train – one loaded lumber centerbeam flatcar. Well, that made it easier getting the swan in front of me into the frame without changing lenses.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2739]\n And I grabbed one long tele shot of the train heading for the south end of the cove, with a house across the Thames River in the background.<\/p>\n [cpg_imagefixthumb:2738]\n With the train gone, it was time to head back. No shots of them crossing the Thames – they would be waiting to follow a westbound Amtrak since track 2 at Shaw’s Cove is still out of service, and I had been out long enough.<\/p>\n Thanks for looking! A sunny day can’t go without pictures (yeah, neither can a cloudy, rainy, foggy or snowy day either, but you get my drift), so I headed out to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 this morning at one of my usual spots. So once I left, I fired up my scanner and started my 7 […]<\/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":[14,85,21,25,22,8,86,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-78","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-hyrail","9":"tag-ledyard","10":"tag-mill-cove","11":"tag-nr-2","12":"tag-providence-worcester","13":"tag-swan","14":"tag-thames-river","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"