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DPU too |
| Description: |
This is the point where you have to give up the chase. Except for a couple of spots in the next mile, theres no way to continue the chase in any meaningful way, as the roads dont support a high speed run. Thus, I rolled the train by, getting the DPU as they went past, a mix of power as has become typical on these trains. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 6:09:38 AM |
| Location: |
Bunch, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9351(ES44AC) KCSM 4563(AC44CW) UP 5781(AC44CWCTE) |
| Views: |
282 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Going to church |
| Description: |
The DPU on the oil train passes the sign for the local Assembly of God, which is across the tracks in "town." Ill give up the chase here, and head back for home, since the light is now getting too low, and theres no viable chase farther south. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 6:24:46 AM |
| Location: |
Bunch, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5781(AC44CWCTE) KCSM 4563(AC44CW) CP 9351(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
269 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Meanwhile |
| Description: |
Back at Watts, the 261 train was getting ready to go, but I thought it would be a little while, so grabbed this shot of the power as I came though town. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/2023 Upload Date: 11/5/2023 4:48:42 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4858(ES44AC) KCSM 4563(AC44CW) KCS 2828(GP40-3) KCSM 4711(ES44AC) |
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285 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Not quite |
| Description: |
I caught the head end of the 261 train, now a little less backlit, since the sun had come around some since I left to follow the 262 south. He has the ditch lights on, but was backing up when I left. Wish Id given him five more minutes; he left shortly after this, and would have made for a nice shot on the Illinois River a mile to the north. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/2023 Upload Date: 11/5/2023 4:55:52 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4711(ES44AC) KCSM 4563(AC44CW) KCS 2828(GP40-3) KCS 4858(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
284 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Surprise |
| Description: |
I took off south, to find the 262 train had arrived at Watts, and was holding the main. As I drove into town, I heard the detector at MP 238 go off. Crap, hell probably be here before I can catch him in good light. I was right, The head end was already coming up the siding, it was the 261 train, coming in with 80 cars, blocked by its southbound counterpart. Not that it mattered; the angle I had was the "dark" side for both trains. My only hope was the northbound would pull up past the end of the southbound, and I could get him north of the yard office. I lucked out on that one, getting the power just as it peeked out behind the 262, but its ridiculously backlit. Oh well....five minutes faster, Id have had a nicely lit shot near MP 237, south of the yard. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/2023 Upload Date: 11/5/2023 4:09:05 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4858(ES44AC) KCSM 4711(ES44AC) KCSM 4563(AC44CW) KCS 2828(GP40-3) |
| Views: |
317 Comments: 2 |
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