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PW NR2, Amtrak Acela and the Saga Monal
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | July 1st 2008 by Tom Nanos
Another hazy, hot & humid day today. But a gap in the schedule gave me a chance to head out and hopefully catch some rail action, and possibly some blue skies peeking through the clouds. Well, I ended up with both, along with a lumber ship at t read more
Three-fer Monday - Amtrak, NECR and P&W
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 30th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Well, a gap in my schedule this morning let me get out for a bit into the hot & hazy morning. In the short time I was out, I caught a pair of Amtraks (one regional and one Acela), New England Central train NERWNE and Providence & Worcester t read more
Submariner Art
The Bull Speaks! | June 29th 2008
While zipping along the Web The Bull ran across a bit of “artwork” that he had not seen since his days at the New London Sub Base in Groton, CT. (Make you date late 1980.) As I recall, it was posted in several locations on base from the c read more
Time Warp 5 - 6/23 - The last P&W NR-2 over the old drawbridge
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 27th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Ahhh, finally approaching current times. The 23rd was a foggy morning, and I was able to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 at the USS Nautilus overlook park and crossing the Thames River drawbridge. As it turned out, this was the last NR- read more
Time Warp 3 - 6/19 - NECR, P&W, a pair of Amtraks and how to get…
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 27th 2008 by Tom Nanos
OK, still chipping away at the backlog. Three more posts including this one before the Thames River drawbridge swap. So without further adieu, here’s one from June 19th - I was able to catch New England Central train NERWNE, Providence & read more
Time Warp 2 - 6/18 - PW NR2 at Mill Cove, over the Thames and at…
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 25th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Second catchup post. Beautiful blue skies and the Providence & Worcester back on the 18th, so I couldn’t pass it up. Short version is this - I caught NR-2 at Mill Cove, crossing the Thames River and rolling through New London under the su read more
Time Warp 1 - 6/17 - PW NR2, the Nautilus, Amtrak 171 and the dra…
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 25th 2008 by Tom Nanos
OK, running a bit behind with the blog posts. Been busy at work, and now I’m down in Hershey, PA on a mini-vacation with the family. Yes, that means I missed the swap out of the Thames River drawbridge. Oh, well…you can’t win read more
Electric Boat Gets Work
Extra Content | June 25th 2008 by Andrew Taylor
The Electric Boat division of General Dynamics(GD) has been awarded a 13.7 million dollar Navy contract.They will carry out alterations of Ohio-class nuclear submarines.The work involves the D-5 Trident ballistic missile and the submarines' attack we read more
In a fog Monday morning
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 17th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Pea soup on Monday morning. Yep, a foggy start to the week, but that didn’t really keep me from heading out and trying to catch some rail action. I did get lucky, though - caught New England Central train NERWNE heading back north in Waterfor read more
Friday the 13th - PW, Amtrak, NECR and PW
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 13th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Today started off with me thinking that I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the gorgeous weather today. I had meetings scheduled this morning, and by the time they’d be over, I would have missed Providence & Worcester train NR-2. read more
Acela, freight & flowers
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 5th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Phew, finally caught up completely! Shot these this past Tuesday the 3rd - I ended up catching Providence & Worcester train NR-2 at Mill Cove, and again crossing the Thames River, and sandwiched in between was a westbound Amtrak Acela crossing t read more
P&W, Amtrak 171 and work on the drawbridge
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | June 4th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Getting caught up, finally. This one took place this past Monday. I was able to take advantage of the nice weather on Monday and get out to shoot Providence & Worcester train NR-2 in Ledyard, Groton and New London. Also, I nabbed Amtrak 171 cr read more
An all-EMD NR-2
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | May 16th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Now that I’m back home, I decided to take advantage of a hole in my schedule and get out to shoot Providence & Worcester train NR-2 somewhere in Ledyard. As things turned out, not only did I catch them, but it was an interesting train - at read more
Lilacs and Locomotives
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | May 10th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Well, back to normal on Friday. Spent the first 4 days of the week at an offsite department meeting (yes, a 4 day meeting…at least it was in Atlantic City), so I was really jonseing for some train action. So despite the pouring rain, I headed read more
Sunny day P&W, Amtrak and NECR
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | May 1st 2008 by Tom Nanos
I was hemming and hawing about going out this morning. When I went out to get a coffee, I was convinced - bright blue skies were pouring through the skylights in the building. So instead of the coffee, I headed for the car. Hopefully I could catch read more
In the air from Morristown, NJ to Groton, CT
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | April 30th 2008 by Tom Nanos
On my flight back from Morristown, NJ to Groton, CT I had my G9 with me. So I snapped a bunch of photos along the way - from the taxiway in NJ, to approach to Groton. They came out OK - it was quite turbulent, even the image stabilizer in the camer read more
Home sweet home with the P&W and Amtrak
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | March 25th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Finally back home after a couple work trips. So this morning, I tried to head out and catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 somewhere. Plus it’s been a while since I was able to shoot the good old P&W. So I did a few things when I read more
Friday - P&W NR-2 and Amtrak 190
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | March 8th 2008 by Tom Nanos
OK, part III of my catching up series - some shots from yesterday. I was able to get out yesterday and actually catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 in Ledyard, taking advantage of the sunlight before the clouds rolled in later in the day. A read more
Snowy railfanning
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | February 22nd 2008 by Tom Nanos
Winter is winding down on the calendar, but today we got a pretty good snowstorm here in southern New England. So after I was at work for a while this morning, I grabbed my laptop and headed home to get ahead of the morons who never seem to learn ho read more
Coal barge - and a nearly missed NR-2
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | February 21st 2008 by Tom Nanos
I actually got out to catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2 yesterday, but it was a close call for sure. And the delay in getting this posting online is because of that little celestial event last night - the total lunar eclipse. Yep, I got s read more
ICElla and NR-COLD!
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | February 11th 2008 by Tom Nanos
OK, really, really corny title here, but it was damned cold today! I guess my brain is still frozen… Like an idiot, I braved the below zero wind chills along the Thames River, but I had company to share the stupidity…and trains. read more
Nautilus (SSN 571) at the Submarine Force Museum
Southeastern Connecticut Guide | February 11th 2008 by Lights in the Northern Sky
Submarines are a big part of southeastern Connecticut history. Located in Groton, Connecticut at the Naval Submarine Base New London is the historic ship Nautilus (SSN 571) Submarine Force Museum. This 27,000 square foot facility serves as the offici read more
NR-2 and a burned out building
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | January 10th 2008 by Tom Nanos
The weather guys were talking about sunshine this morning, so I tried to get out for my walk & catch Providence & Worcester train NR-2. With the sunshine and blue skies I was aiming for Erickson Park and Mill Cove in Ledyard. Also, afterwar read more
P&W Day & Night
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | January 9th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Normally I post to my blog in the evening about what I did that day. But yesterday was different - I headed into Willimantic at the time I’d normally be writing this to photograph Providence & Worcester train NR-4. And as usual, I managed read more
Diesel powered nuclear sub?
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | January 5th 2008 by Tom Nanos
Running a bit behind here - getting ready to move my office at work, and I’m doing some maintenance on the servers at home. I wasn’t able to get out the past couple days at work, but I did get out for a bit on Wednesday. The only train read more
NR-2, 190 and a few Rhode Islanders
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | December 28th 2007 by Tom Nanos
Today was a bit different than usual - not only was it sunny and above freezing, but I had some visitors on my usual photography jaunt - a few folks from the Ocean State decided to shoot the Providence & Worcester along the Norwich Branch. They read more
Foggy Morning NR-2
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | December 27th 2007 by Tom Nanos
Rain, mist & fog. Not the best atmosphere for photography, well, unless you want the photos to have atmosphere. So I decided to head out despite the light drizzle falling amongst the low hanging clouds. My aim was Mill Cove in Ledyard to hopef read more
Things that float
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | December 20th 2007 by Tom Nanos
Well, I guess I jinxed myself yesterday when I said that it seemed Providence & Worcester train NR-2 was settling back into their normal schedule. I got out a bit late, but nothing out of the ordinary, so I figured I’d at least be able to read more
Normalcy and unexpectedness
Tom Nanos' Railroad Photography Blog | December 19th 2007 by Tom Nanos
It’s looking like Providence & Worcester train NR-2 is settling back into their regular “schedule.” But of course, with that bit of return to normalcy, a bit of the unforeseen crept in. But of course, the unexpected is often t read more
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