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It’s that time of year again - calendar time! I haven’t done this in a few years, so I decided to give it a whirl for 2010. I’ve created a 12 month calendar featuring some of my recent night photography around Connecticut and Massachusetts - including both museum and commercial railroad operations titled Railroads After Dark - 2010 Calendar
Snowbirds - the term used for people who live here in the north and “migrate” south to Florida in the winters. As some of you may know, a pair of Florida East Coast Railway GP40s have been leased to the New England Central Railroad, and are making their way up here from their warm home along the east coast of the Sunshine State - hence the “anti-snowbird” term in the title. [side note - there are supposed to be more units coming this way - these are the first ones] Last night, I took a gamble and took a ride up to West Springfield, MA with friend & fellow photographer Bob LaMay to see if the pair were in CSX’s yard. You see they left Selkirk earlier in the day, but according to sources, they were supposedly headed for Barber’s Station, MA, which is in Worcester. On a hunch, we headed north to see if CSX dropped them in the yard and the pair were sitting there under the cold, dark skies of West Springfield. We even had a backup plan - if they weren’t there, we’d head over to the Springfield Amtrak station and shoot the trains laying over there. At least we’d walk out with something…
As seems to be the recent norm for me, I’m running a bit behind on my postings. I did manage to get out a few times last week, and caught some Providence & Worcester and Amtrak action along the Thames River. So we’ll keep this brief and just let you enjoy the photos.
Been a bit busy lately - I did manage to get out on Monday morning for a bit and catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2, but I haven’t gotten around to processing the images yet (pretty run-of-the-mill stuff, so nothing earth shattering). In the meantime, here’s a trio of slide scans from a few years back. I’ll probably get the P&W stuff up tomorrow at some point. Stay tuned on that…
Bob LaMay and I went up to Boston for our annual ritual on Saturday - attending the 
And the stuff from this morning. Another brief outing, so I’ll once again keep the typing to a minimum. I’m sure nobody will have a problem with that…
Catching up part II - yesterday. More Providence & Worcester NR-2 in this one. No big surprises here…
OK, it’s Friday night, so I guess I can catch up. I managed to get out a few times this past week to shoot a bit. The weather was decent down here in southeastern Connecticut, so I took advantage of that. This one is from this past Wednesday where I caught Providence & Worcester train NR-2, along with a US Navy submarine heading out to sea.
I managed to make a little time this morning to get out and try to photograph a little bit along the Thames River. But it was later than usual, so I wasn’t sure what, if anything I’d catch. I was encouraged by the fact that on my way into work I heard a Providence & Worcester track car at Norwich looking to get the track all the way to Fairview. So that meant that NR-2 would probably be a bit later than usual. So my late start shouldn’t have made a difference…if anything it should help.
Now that we’re safely nestled into the new year I normally pick out some of my favorite shots from the previous year (
We got back home from Florida early last week, but because of things around the house, I didn’t get out to shoot at all. This morning, though, I finally got a chance to head out, and bagged Providence & Worcester train NR-2 at a couple spots. I also got some dredging along the Thames River channel on my way north to catch the P&W.