The sun broke the winter clouds just long enough for a few pictures of NR-3 as it switched PLAIN yard, preparing to head north to Putnam.
NR-3 has just switched out several cars at the recycling and fertilizer company's siding in the foreground. Now its wasting no time at all, headed up to PLAIN to drop and pick up a few more cars b... (more)
A week later, 3902 remains on duty in Plainfield, but 3906 has taken the place of one of the B39 or B40 units sent to Worcester last Thursday. NR2 came to town with two units on the front end (as ... (more)
PW 4004 looking good in it's realitivly new paint while the conductor gets ready to set the switch. Taken with Canon Digital Rebel.
Thirty-nine-ought-two does some switching of the eastern yard on the Mooseup main. A long cut of Thiel and other tank cars winds its way around the curve and back into the yard.
BEA-UTIFUL! 4003 made its maiden freight assignment in FRESH paint out of Plainfield, on NR-3. Here it is in the late evening sun - wonder how long it'll stay that shiny?
A low angle view of P&W 4002, switching yard limits PLAIN.
NR2 has done some switching, and the 3902 has retreived a CSX gondola from the shops, for 4002 to spot in the lower yard with the tanker.
A look up at the chunky lines of a B40's aft end.
Three PW engines making their way across the Connecticut River Bridge into Middletown CT.
NR-2 southbound
With it's load in tow P & W # 3906 heads back towards New Haven.
Moving cars around at Old Saybrook junction.
P&W train NR-2 scares off some birds resting on the trusses of the Thames River bridge between Groton and New London, CT. The US Navy Submarine base looms in the distant background a couple miles... (more)
