Sperry Rail Services<\/a> inspection vehicle close by. Looking across the Thames River gave me my answer – a bright yellow truck, followed by 3 NECR hyrails were making their way north. So I decided to head over to Red Top and get a little closer view. I got one shot of the truck, with two of the three NECR hyrails trailing behind it, from Red Top.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2853]\n
As the trucks were rolling north, they were also getting their track warrant revised – aparently NECR train #610 was heading south, so the inspection truck’s warrant would need to be shortened to enable the train to head south to New London – and they would meet at about MP8. OK, that meant I could possibly get the 610 from across the river too, but not from this spot. So I figured I’d head a bit further north and hit the shore somewhere around MP7 on the P&W side (about MP8 on the NECR across the water) hoping to catch the southbound NECR job.<\/p>\n
This spot would mean that I’d be giving up my nice leisurely walk around the park in favor of more of a hill climbing expidition. That’s OK – it’s all excersise. So I got out of the car, and headed down the hillside towards the water, and incidentially the P&W main. As I got there, the scanner again came alive – this time on the P&W frequency. NR-2 was just heading through Norwich Yard, which meant they were about 5 miles to the north of me. Pretty good timing so far.<\/p>\n
Moments after the scanner went silent, a trio of headlights came around the bend in the tracks across the river in Montville – 610 was coming into view. I grabbed a couple shots across the river as they slowly rolled south.<\/p>\n
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The the train started to slow down, until it came to a complete stop almost directly across the river from my position. It was a decent looking shot, so of course I grabbed one with the train sitting there.<\/p>\n
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Aparently they were waiting for all the vehicles to the south to clear off of the rails before proceeding south to New London.<\/p>\n
While that was happening, a distant horn sounded to the north – P&W NR-2 was headed this way! Since it was low tide, I could get out a bit further away from the tracks to get a long telephoto of the train heading under the Mohegan Pequot Bridge, and towards Poquetanuck Cove.<\/p>\n
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Then I switched lenses, ditching the telephoto, and mounting the wide angle zoom, all the while, heading to the other side of the tracks, and along a calm tidal pool to the east of the tracks. I carefully walked out onto a rock about 5 feet from the shore, and crouched down getting below a hanging branch to get this nice reflection shot of the train speeding past me.<\/p>\n
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Since it was a longer train, I had time to get back onto dry land, switch back to the telephoto, and get a going away shot of the train heading for Allyn’s Point.<\/p>\n
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Happy with my grab for the day, I headed back to the car – which involved a hike back up the hillside. The NECR was still stopped at the same point across the river, so there was nothing doing there for a bit. Time to head back.<\/p>\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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With temperatures in the mid 60s, and sunny blue skies, I couldn’t pass up a walk today. So I headed for Erickson Park in Ledyard again, as usual, with full intentions of not only doing my laps around the park, but also shooting Providence & Worcester train NR-2 heading south along Mill Cove. A few minutes after I got there, once again, my plans would change. I’d still get my walk in, but not exactly at Erickson Park.<\/p>\n