{"id":828,"date":"2009-05-31T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-05-31T20:10:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T00:10:19","slug":"east-deerfield-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/east-deerfield-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"East Deerfield in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last night I did a slideshow for the Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet<\/a> out in Collinsville, CT.\u00a0 The show was on railroads at night, and went over rather well.\u00a0 Since I was out and about anyways, I decided to meet up with fellow photographers Nick Palazini and Dave Jodoin somewhere up on PanAm’s District 4.\u00a0 As things worked out, we ended up meeting at East Deerfield, MA and doing some shooting around there.<\/p>\n

The plan was that I would head up towards Royalston, MA after I was done with the slideshow, and we’d shoot whatever trains we came across on the way west.\u00a0 As things worked out we were running late – as in I was taking longer than the GPS said, and Dave had to get a new headlight – and decided it would be best to meet up in East Deerfield instead.\u00a0 So I headed there first – I figured that I had a good hour to myself there before Nick & Dave showed up.<\/p>\n

As I got there, not much was going on.\u00a0 Just some power down by the crew trailer and the sand towers.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9189]\n

So now what to do?\u00a0 No way I was getting closer to the power to light it up with the Lumedyne (hey, that would be trespassing!), so I just went back to the car and relaxed for a few minutes and listened to the scanner.<\/p>\n

Well, that scanner had some good news.\u00a0 It sounded like a train was heading this way.\u00a0 Not long after that, I saw headlights to the east, so I grabbed my gear and headed up towards Railfan Bridge to get a better angle.\u00a0 From there I saw AYMO come to a stop just short of the signals, and the crew get off.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9188]\n

Then I got a couple shots from different angles<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9187] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9186]\n

One of MEC 515 idling away by the crew trailer<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9185]\n

A couple more of AYMO<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9184] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9183]\n

And a tie crane sitting down by the tower<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9182]\n

Then it was back to waiting.\u00a0 In that time I saw another crew van come up, presumably bringing a fresh crew for AYMO to continue west to Mohawk, NY.\u00a0 Not long after that, Nick called in with a status report – they were close, but we weren’t srue if they’d make it by the time AYMO headed west.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the van did bring a fresh crew for AYMO, and when they got aboard they did their normal pre-departure checks<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9181]\n

Then began to do their set and release brake test.\u00a0 Just as they were doing that, Nick & Dave pulled in.\u00a0 While we were chatting, I got a shot of AYMO, and some of the fog whisping in<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9180]\n

Not long after that, they pulled out<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9179]\n

And while they were pulling out, a switchman came out to line a switch closer to us<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9178]\n

After AYMO cleared the area, a trio of locomotives pulled out of the hosue tracks<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9177]\n

And headed to the east end of the yard.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9176]\n

From what we could gather, this was to be the power for EDNM in the morning.<\/p>\n

After that little bit of action, there was nothing doing.\u00a0 So we got a couple more shots of the 515 idling away<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9175] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9174]\n

And decided to call it a night to make the 2 hour trek back home.\u00a0 It was a long evening, but well worth it.\u00a0 The slideshow was well received, and I netted a few neat shots in East Deerfield.<\/p>\n

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

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