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Five grays |
| Description: |
With all the attention given to the new Belle scheme, its easy to overlook that the gray units are slowly disappearing. One has to remember, this was considered a great improvement over the white dip that KCS used for so long. This southbound H reain has picked up the local power at Watts for a trip to Heavener for servicing, making for five gray units, a sight that has become unusual. |
| Photo Date: |
2/7/2015 Upload Date: 2/10/2015 4:40:20 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4577(AC44CW) KCS 4613(AC44CW) KCS 2822(GP40-3) KCS 2849(GP40-3) KCS 1909(GP38-2) |
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961 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Ringing the Belles |
| Description: |
The southbound grain train passes the stuffed and mounted F 7 at Decatur station, itself in the scheme that inspired the one on the active power passing it. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/2016 Upload Date: 12/31/2016 5:02:27 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4705(ES44AC) KCS 4577(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
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848 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
By the station |
| Description: |
Southbound grain led by 4705 rolls past the Decatur passenger station with 75 cars, having just set off 25 at Georges Farms. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/2016 Upload Date: 12/31/2016 5:25:52 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4705(ES44AC) KCS 4577(AC44CW) |
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532 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Its all about the chickens |
| Description: |
A train full of chicken feed rolls past a place that sells....chicken feed. Across the tracks is a store called The Chicken Coop, which is a junk...er, consignment shop...that has a lot of chicken related items. Trailing unit 4577 is one of only a few AC44's that have been painted into the Belle scheme. There are many more SD70's that have gotten the treatment. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/2016 Upload Date: 12/31/2016 5:44:58 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4705(ES44AC) KCS 4577(AC44CW) |
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492 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Catching rays |
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One of the great things about winter is the low sun angle, which really saturates the colors. The down side is, the sun never gets very high, and shots you can take in the summer are in shadow. Such is the case at Decatur, where I catch this southbound grain train getting some sun in between the shadows from the adjacent Simmons Foods buildings. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/2016 Upload Date: 12/31/2016 5:28:43 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4705(ES44AC) KCS 4577(AC44CW) |
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491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Spavinaw Creek |
| Description: |
Sometimes out and back is a one sided event. We went out last Friday because it was a nice day-55 degrees and sun-too nice to stay in. I had not heard a train in several hours, so after lunch we headed north, figuring we'd run into something along the way. That turned out to be a southbound grain train, which we saw at Gravette. We chased down to Spavinaw Creek, where KCS must have cleared out some brush along the tracks, along with the usual die back in winter. A 100 car grain train rolls off the short through truss over Spavinaw Creek, between Gravette and the north end of Dorsey siding, in a view I have not seen before, and impossible when everything is leafed out. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/2016 Upload Date: 12/31/2016 5:32:55 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4705(ES44AC) KCS 4577(AC44CW) |
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463 Comments: 0 |
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