A reason for wide angle
Feb 4, 2018 21:26:15 #
The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad served southern New England 1872 - 1968; in 1968 the railroad was merged into the Penn Central, and after bankruptcy of the PC, remains of the New Haven were divided amongst several entities, including Metro North, who provides commuter service to communities north and east of NYC.
We moved to western Massachusetts in 2006. In 2008, our younger daughter, then a high school student, spent several weeks on a NYC adventure; organizers of the adventure provided almost everything, but we had to get her to/from Grand Central Terminal, so we drove to Croton-Harmon on the Hudson commuter line and put her on a commuter train to Grand Central. As we stood on the station platform, I looked up the line and saw this locomotive. Once she had gone, I stood on a bridge across the tracks and took this picture. This is a FL9, a locomotive which can run off diesel engine or from the third rail, and had been manufactured roughly 50 years earlier. As nearly as I can determine, this locomotive is now owned by the state of Connecticut and provided to Metro North as part of Connecticut's contribution support of Metro North - I found out later that Connecticut often paints/repaints their railroad properties in New Haven colors because of their pride in the railroad that once served their state so well.
The framing of this locomotive was very tight; if I had backed up, the bridge I was standing on would have been in the way. This picture is one of the efforts that lead me to get a 10-20mm lens a few years later.
We moved to western Massachusetts in 2006. In 2008, our younger daughter, then a high school student, spent several weeks on a NYC adventure; organizers of the adventure provided almost everything, but we had to get her to/from Grand Central Terminal, so we drove to Croton-Harmon on the Hudson commuter line and put her on a commuter train to Grand Central. As we stood on the station platform, I looked up the line and saw this locomotive. Once she had gone, I stood on a bridge across the tracks and took this picture. This is a FL9, a locomotive which can run off diesel engine or from the third rail, and had been manufactured roughly 50 years earlier. As nearly as I can determine, this locomotive is now owned by the state of Connecticut and provided to Metro North as part of Connecticut's contribution support of Metro North - I found out later that Connecticut often paints/repaints their railroad properties in New Haven colors because of their pride in the railroad that once served their state so well.
The framing of this locomotive was very tight; if I had backed up, the bridge I was standing on would have been in the way. This picture is one of the efforts that lead me to get a 10-20mm lens a few years later.
Feb 5, 2018 08:47:18 #
rehess wrote:
The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad se... (show quote)
Very interesting, particularly that it can run as a conventional diesel electric or elecctric only via a third rail. Thanks for posting.
Richard.
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