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Just a quick note of an upcoming slideshow I’m putting on. I’ll be presenting a show entitled “Steel Wheels and Submarines – Railroading along the Thames River” at the Amherst Railway Society’s October 2010 meeting. As you can infer from the title, I’ll be doing a virtual guided tour of the railroads along the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut. The roads that will be covered are NECR, PW, Amtrak & Shore Line East, and the show will include a number of never before seen photos. 
Still catching up on the backlog of photos. Here we go back to August 8th when we went to the Lebanon Lions’ 51st annual 
A couple weeks back, I had to take a short-notice work trip down to New Jersey (pictures from that trip are 
A couple weeks back I had to take a last minute trip down to New Jersey for work, and as usual I went out for a bit of shooting in the down time. But with the earlier sunsets, and later workdays, I only had a little bit of time to shoot. So instead of doing my usual jaunts around the area, I went for the low hanging fruit and shot primarily down the road from the hotel at the Bound Brook station.
Back on the 3rd and 5th of August, 80 cars of loaded ethanol made their way over the New England Central and Providence & Worcester Railroads, and were delivered to their destination in Providence, Rhode Island. Well, on both days I managed to get shots of the two moonshine moves from the same spot. One was at night, and the second was in hazy summertime daylight. The symbol used for these moves on the Providence & Worcester is K666 – borrowed from the actual CP symbol of 666 before it’s delivered to VTR in Whitehall, NY, and CSX’s K prefix for unit commodity trains.
Yeah, it’s been a little while since the last update. Actually, pretty close to a month! As usual, things are just downright hectic at home and at work. But I have been making a little time for shooting here and there. Over the next week or so, I’ll be playing catch-up and posting stuff in dribs and drabs. Here’s the first one from back on August 2nd, where I was able to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 and Amtrak Northeast Regional train 190 meeting at Niantic.
This past Saturday, we took a ride down the road to the 
Down here on the south end of the New England Central Railroad, we’ve had a visitor from down south working on the Montville switcher job for the past week or so. One of the four Florida East Coast locomotives has been assigned the duties on train NERWNE recently. Last
Continuing on the backlog here – but instead of what I would normally do and make one post for each “outing,” instead I’m putting together one massive post with a week’s full of shots in it. Basically taking care of pretty much the entire backlog in one fell swoop. In this catch-all post, you’ll see Amtrak, NECR (with NECR and FEC power) and the P&W for railroads, and the usual passenger, freight and a couple ethanol moves thrown in for good measure (both empty and loaded). Yep, there’s a lot of stuff here to check out…
Yep, it sure has been over two weeks since my last post. But don’t fret, I’ve been out shooting over that period of time. Granted, not as much as I would have liked, but I have been out there killing pixels. Here’s a quickie from a little while back on my trip home one afternoon.
On Saturday July 10th, there were a number of Independence Day fireworks displays planned, including New London and my hometown of Lebanon. Since we usually go to the hometown show, New London was out for us this year. So that would also mean I’d miss shooting the New England Central Railroad’s fireworks extra, which would be shuttling employees of the railroad and their families from Palmer, MA down to New London for the show. Oh, well. But as things worked out, Mother Nature has something up her sleeve…well, not Mother Nature, but rather the weather forecasters, and what effect they’d have on our local fireworks schedule.