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4/15/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Kansas City Southern
Model:EMD SD70MACBuilt As:TFM 1653 (SD70MAC)
Serial Number:998109-54Order No:998109
Frame Number:998109-54Built:1/2000
Notes:Ex-TFM
Other locos with this serial:  TFM 1653(SD70MAC) KCS 3953(SD70MAC)
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Gray engines, white clouds
Title:  Gray engines, white clouds
Description:  A southbound H train rolls past the signals at the north end of Siloam under a canopy of puffy white clouds.
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 8/3/2016 2:37:14 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 3968(SD70MAC)
Views:  819   Comments: 1
By the bins
Title:  By the bins
Description:  A southbound H train passes the grain bins at Bakery Feeds as it prepares to work the small Watts yard. The KCS office is to the left of the train, on the old station site.
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 8/3/2016 3:12:00 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 3968(SD70MAC)
Views:  850   Comments: 0
Belle DPUs
Title:  Belle DPUs
Description:  The configuration of coal trains flexes over time. Sometimes they run 2x2x1, then operating philosophy will change, and theyll go 2x3, then 3x2, then back to 2x3. For a long time, when the practice was 2x2x1, KCS would add helpers about 85 cars deep, leaving the home road power solo on the rear. Once again, we are in a 2x3 mode, and KCS has added their DPUs on the rear, which is where we find them on this southbound AEPX train crossing Cheri Whitlock Rd. Todays set includes a unit from south of the border.
Photo Date:  7/6/2016  Upload Date: 7/11/2016 11:58:34 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCSM 4546(AC44CW) UP 6500(AC44CW)
Views:  538   Comments: 0
Slowing for a meet
Title:  Slowing for a meet
Description:  Northbound empty TXUX train slows for the siding at Noel as it passes the Deer Creek Rd crossing just south of town.
Photo Date:  10/24/2016  Upload Date: 10/29/2016 4:17:43 AM
Location:  Noel, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5784(ES44AC) BNSF 9195(SD70ACe) KCSM 4736(ES44AC) KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 4849(ES44AC) KCS 4685(ES44AC)
Views:  715   Comments: 1
Tunnel of trees
Title:  Tunnel of trees
Description:  This view from the Ark 59 overpass shows how hemmed in the tracks are by the trees here. In a couple of weeks, hopefully the color will come out, making this shot a fall spectacle.
Photo Date:  10/24/2016  Upload Date: 10/29/2016 4:21:43 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5784(ES44AC) BNSF 9195(SD70ACe) KCSM 4736(ES44AC) KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 4849(ES44AC) KCS 4685(ES44AC)
Views:  798   Comments: 1
Wating at the station
Title:  Wating at the station
Description:  The empty northbound sits at the Noel station as it waits on the meet, which will be a loaded train for Texas.
Photo Date:  10/24/2016  Upload Date: 10/29/2016 4:28:04 AM
Location:  Noel, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5784(ES44AC) BNSF 9195(SD70ACe) KCSM 4736(ES44AC) KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 4849(ES44AC) KCS 4685(ES44AC)
Views:  749   Comments: 0
Pushing sand
Title:  Pushing sand
Description:  Like most heavy trains, the sand train got a DPU for the southbound trip. We see it pushing south at Y City Road.
Photo Date:  11/26/2018  Upload Date: 11/29/2018 3:55:17 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 4167(SD70ACe)
Views:  253   Comments: 2
Time for DPUs
Title:  Time for DPUs
Description:  The DPU on the sand train also checks the time at the station.
Photo Date:  11/26/2018  Upload Date: 11/29/2018 5:44:57 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 4167(SD70ACe)
Views:  280   Comments: 2
By the gate
Title:  By the gate
Description:  The retreating DPU rolls past a corral gate at Y City Road.
Photo Date:  11/26/2018  Upload Date: 11/29/2018 4:09:16 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3953(SD70MAC) KCS 4167(SD70ACe)
Views:  248   Comments: 1


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