Jack May visits Connecticut

[daveklepper]

Jack May Visits Connecticut

 

 

 

Hartford Line, Old Wallington Station, Amtrak

 

A day trip along the Connecticut River on a brisk October day afforded me the opportunity to photograph some scenes along CT Rail and visit the Warehouse Point trolley museum.  

The first six views are of the regional rail and commuter services provided along the former New Haven Railroad's Connecticut River line that operates between New Haven, Conn. and Springfield Mass.  Called the Hartford Line, the state-supported services are shared between the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CT Rail) and Amtrak, and connect at New Haven with Metro North trains to Grand Central Terminal in New York and Amtrak trains to Penn Station, New York and beyond.  One through service is operated, the Vermonter, which runs St. Albans, Vt. -- Washington, DC.  General Electric-built Genesis locomotives are the main motive power assigned by both operators to the service with PD40DCs on the CT Rail roster and PD42DCs on Amtrak trains.  Refurbished MBB (Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm) coaches that formerly were used by the MBTA in Boston are used on most CT Rail trains, while Amfleet cars can be found on Amtrak trains.  There is older equipment also on the CT Rail roster. 

 

Eleven round trips (5 Amtrak and 6 CT Rail) are operated on Saturdays at this time, with the corresponding numbers being 13-7-6 on Sundays and 17-8-9 on weekdays.

The first six photos were taken near the Meriden and Wallingford stations.

 

Above and below, Hartford Line, Wallingford, Amtrak

 

 

 

Harford Line, Connecticut Dept. of Transportation, above, Wallingford, below Meriden

 

 

The last five are views at the Connecticut Trolley Museum at Warehouse Point, where we stopped in between our morning and late afternoon CT Rail photos.  The museum's single track line runs through a wooded landscape and is one and half miles long.  The cars are kept in excellent condition.  Had the weather been warmer I imagine that their ex-Montreal observation car or Connecticut Company open would have been operated; and the last two photographs, showing those cars, were taken on an earlier visit.  Jack

 

 

Above, Boston Type 5, Laconiam 1924;   below Connecticut Co., Osgood-Bradley-1910

         

 

 

 

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Cannecticut Co. Above, Wason, 1910; below, 15-bench open car, Brill, 1902, originally Fairhaven &Western

 

 

Montreal “Golden Chariot” observation car, built 1924 in Montreal Tramways Youville Shops

 

[daveklepper]

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[daveklepper]

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[daveklepper]

Can anyone point me to a website that has zero porn or near-porn, and wher posting pictures is possible without email payment?

[CMStPnP]

Dave,

I am not sure but I thought Microsoft now offers photo storage and sharing if you subscribe to Windows 365.    You might want to Google and read up how that works.  I think they do it via One Drive software.

[daveklepper]

1.   Not certain my computers are capable of 356, bit will look into it.

2,   I had absolutely bzero to do with the enlargements of my portrait, and  they are evidence of some serious hacking.

3,  A virus checki on one of the two computers turned up:  "Serious Threat, Hacking tool."  And now that computer won't connect tp the internet AFTER thev virusw removal procdesws.  POssibly I'll have to reload Windows anyway.

[CMStPnP]

daveklepper

1.   Not certain my computers are capable of 356, bit will look into it.

2,   I had absolutely bzero to do with the enlargements of my portrait, and  they are evidence of some serious hacking.

3,  A virus checki on one of the two computers turned up:  "Serious Threat, Hacking tool."  And now that computer won't connect tp the internet AFTER thev virusw removal procdesws.  POssibly I'll have to reload Windows anyway.

Dave - FYI,

Software as a service that Microsoft 365 represents is the way of the near future.  All the U.S. Government systems are moving to the Amazon (AWS) Cloud.   I am sure Isreal is probably doing similar if you check.    The download to PC or laptop business is going to fade away pretty fast.    So is the local storage option.  Hence the cautionary notes about AI as once on the cloud, it's arrival is very easy to accomplish because most of the AWS applications offer it.   So probably a good idea to cut over to it at some point in 5  years time.

[daveklepper]

PHOTOS ARE POSTED.  NOT A PERFECT JOB, BUT DONE.