Thursday – A train and some birds
Catching up part II – yesterday. More Providence & Worcester NR-2 in this one. No big surprises here…
Yeah, pretty run of the mill stuff again. Only difference is yesterday there were a ton of birds hanging out on the ice of Mill Cove. So I incorporated some of them into the photos. Even got a shot of a pair of geese racing NR-2. Something a little different…but nothing really out of the ordinary.
Providence & Worcester train NR-2 comes into view near Red Top in Ledyard, CT as some seagulls hang out on the ice| Taken with | Canon EOS 50D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:10 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.003 s (1/400) | | Focal Length (mm) | 200.00 (200/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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NR-2 approaces the Milepost 4 marker| Taken with | Canon EOS 50D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:21 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.003 s (1/400) | | Focal Length (mm) | 179.00 (179/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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NR-2 pulls onto the causeway along Mill Cove, as the birds sit quietly on the ice| Taken with | Canon EOS 50D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:28 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.003 s (1/400) | | Focal Length (mm) | 179.00 (179/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
View in the gallery NR-2 stretches out on the causeway, with the Harvard Boat House in the background, and more birds on the cove| Taken with | Canon EOS 50D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:32 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.003 s (1/400) | | Focal Length (mm) | 114.00 (114/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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NR-2 passing by some more birds, with the AES Thames power plant in the background| Taken with | Canon EOS 50D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:36 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.003 s (1/400) | | Focal Length (mm) | 168.00 (168/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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NR-2 stretches out along Mill Cove| Taken with | Canon EOS 50D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:39 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.003 s (1/400) | | Focal Length (mm) | 70.00 (70/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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We're Winning! A pair of geese gain on NR-2 as both head south along Mill Cove| Taken with | Canon EOS 40D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:58:52 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.002 s (1/500) | | Focal Length (mm) | 35.00 (35/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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More birds swoop out of the frame at the bottom left, as NR-2 heads for the south end of the cove| Taken with | Canon EOS 40D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:58:59 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.002 s (1/500) | | Focal Length (mm) | 18.00 (18/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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NR-2 heading for the south end of Mill Cove| Taken with | Canon EOS 40D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:00 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.002 s (1/500) | | Focal Length (mm) | 18.00 (18/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
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The tail end of NR-2 ducks behind the trees at the south end of Mill Cove| Taken with | Canon EOS 40D |
| Date Taken | 2010:01:21 08:59:06 |
| Aperture | f/9.0 |
Exposure Time | 0.002 s (1/500) | | Focal Length (mm) | 33.00 (33/1) |
| ISO | 200 |
View in the gallery Thanks for looking!
Tom
Hi Tom,
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog earlier and leaving a comment. Believe it or not, I’ve actually looked at quite a bit of your photography in the past and Kevin has mentioned you a time or three also. We have a lot of discussions about train times and where to try to take a decent picture at and invariably it seems like one of your photos comes up as a point of reference. You have some absolutely phenomenal shots and I’m a bit jealous that you seem to know all the good places to get pictures!
My biggest goal has been to try to get a picture of a southbound NECR train crossing the trestle over the Yantic River at Indian Leap, which I was able to finally do last Wednesday. Of course, I’m not satisfied with just those few pictures and will no doubt be out there again when weather and time permits! I wish they were on a slightly more “regular” schedule but I totally understand why the freight trains aren’t though it seems like the P&W trains are a bit easier to pin down than the NECR ones.
May I just say that I absolutely LOVE the picture you have of the NECR train and the Frog Bridge in Willimantic. That one is definitely inspirational! Any hints or advice that you could pass on would be most definitely appreciated as somewhere along the line I seem to have been bitten by the train photography bug. It’s challenging and a lot of fun – not to mention pretty exciting when I can manage to get a halfway decent shot!
Thank you again for stopping by!
Linda