Those last two pics coming into New London bring back memories. That's the Shaw Cove swing bridge, Shaw Cove would be on the left, Coits Cove on the right. I lived about a block from the bridge when I was a kid. That's the Gold Star Memorial/I-95 bridge crossing the Thames River in the background. The tracks cross the river just downstream from it. The square brick building, with the white stone top, in the second pic is what used to be the Mohican Hotel, now the Mohican Senior Apts. The first six floors were built in 1896. The top two floors and roof garden, the white stone, were added in 1916. The trianglular shaped roof of the New London Union Station can be seen in the background of the first pic, just to the left of the white ship and below the bridge. There used to be a small yard to the right of the bridge approach, where one of my uncles worked. But that went away when Penn Central was going under, when they sold the land to developers to try and raise cash. For all the good it did them.
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