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2007-08-31

August 31st, 2007

We woke up in West Haven, Connecticut and after a brief exploration of New Haven decided it was a bit too urban for our schedule or taste, so we proceeded east along the electric line out, stopping at Bradford to go into the station there. As we parked an Amtrak electric (other than Acela) passed. We waited on the platform about 15 minutes and an Acela train passed. We continued eastward toward New London where we wanted to find the NECR/PWRR interchange, but got distracted by switching sounds in Old Saybrook where we got off the I-95 and found not one but two Providence and Worcester trains switching, as well as our second Acela for the day. We checked the Amtrak schedule and found no trains coming for about 20 minutes, so we took advantage to go east to New London with a train coming to shoot there. We crossed directly into Groton on the far side of the river through town and quickly found a wide open public parking lot facing a railway drawbridge where we waited for the Amtrak train we knew we were ahead of. We heard it coming around the corner on the other side of the river and watched it stop at Union Station and then one of the PWRR trains we had seen switching Old Saybrook crossed the bridge ahead of the Amtrak. After that we were out of time and headed north to Worcester to meet a friend before continuing on to Brattleboro, Vermont.

Branford

Branford, Connecticut

Branford is a small town just east of New Haven, Connecticut along the lakeshore commuter (Providence and Worcester) line.

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Old_Saybrook

Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Old Saybrook is the site of a wye and small yard at an Amtrak station most of the way to New London from New Haven.

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Two Providence and Worcester trains switch along the same track as an Acela passes through the station.

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Two Providence and Worcester trains switch along the same track as an Acela passes through the station.

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Groton

Groton, Connecticut

New London is on the west side of a channel and Groton is on the east along the south coast of Connecticut. It is the site of an easily accessible railway draw bridge along the Providence and Worcester as well of a small wye. New London also hosts the New England Central's southern limits and their interchange with the Providence and Worcester.

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The bridge over the channel between New London and Groton Connecticut drops to allow a push-pull Providence and Worcester and an Electric Amtrak train to pass.

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2009-05-08

May 8th, 2009

On our way to the wedding of one of my oldest friends in rural New Hampshire, we stopped in to see the Ontario Midland, CSX, HRRC, and PVRR, finding very little running. We brought our camera in for a cleaning, and it was returned to us without charge because of an apparently immutable piece of dirt on the sensor, so another railfan trip goes into the record with a great big spot in the upper-right corner of all my photos.

Canaan

Canaan, Connecticut

(map) The town of Canaan is the home of the Housatonic Railroad (HRRC).

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