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4/27/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Kansas City Southern
Model:EMD SD70MACBuilt As:TFM 1661 (SD70MAC)
Serial Number:998109-62Order No:998109
Frame Number:998109-62Built:3/2000
Notes:Ex-TFM
Other locos with this serial:  TFM 1661(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC)
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M train
Title:  M train
Description:  Caught this M train at Jefferson St in sweet afternoon light. A pair of relettered TFM SD's lead a new Belle.
Photo Date:  7/14/2009  Upload Date: 8/28/2016 4:12:24 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3972(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 4118(SD70ACe)
Views:  363   Comments: 2
DPU under the tower
Title:  DPU under the tower
Description:  The DPU on the southbound H train rolls past the water tower at Siloam.
Photo Date:  7/6/2016  Upload Date: 7/11/2016 12:01:55 PM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3961(SD70MAC)
Views:  53   Comments: 0
H train and coal
Title:  H train and coal
Description:  The DPU on the H train, at left, is holding as the first C TUKC today rolls up the main.
Photo Date:  7/6/2016  Upload Date: 7/11/2016 12:04:03 PM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 4855(ES44AC) BNSF 8452(SD70ACe) BNSF 6059(ES44AC)
Views:  198   Comments: 0
DPUs on the move
Title:  DPUs on the move
Description:  The DPUs from both trains meet just north of the Ark 12 overpass. The empty trains a lot of times get only one unit, and sometimes dont get any, with all the power up front. The current practice on loaded trains is to run them 2x3 on the Heavener Sub, so we have a pair of KCS units tacked on behind the BNSF DPU that came from Wyoming.
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/8/2016 4:53:24 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6195(ES44AC) BNSF 9893(SD70MAC) KCS 4026(SD70ACe) KCS 3961(SD70MAC)
Views:  521   Comments: 3
DPUs on the bridge
Title:  DPUs on the bridge
Description:  The trio of DPUs crosses Baron Creek.
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/8/2016 5:27:37 AM
Location:  Baron, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9893(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 4026(SD70ACe)
Views:  463   Comments: 2
DPUs and a barn
Title:  DPUs and a barn
Description:  The DPUs on the coal train roll past on old metal barn north of Westville. There were, up til recently, rows of hay bales next to the barn. Guess the cows got hungry.
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/8/2016 5:22:59 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9893(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 4026(SD70ACe)
Views:  507   Comments: 2
Rolling north into the twilight
Title:  Rolling north into the twilight
Description:  A northbound AEPX empty train rolls away from me under the Ark 59 overpass north of Sulphur Springs, the last low sun catching the power as it rolls into the shadows.
Photo Date:  1/23/2018  Upload Date: 2/4/2018 5:12:21 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4809(ES44AC) KCS 3936(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 3902(SD70MAC) KCS 4121(SD70ACe) BNSF 5998(ES44AC) UP 8510(SD70ACe)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
Wide view, lots of power
Title:  Wide view, lots of power
Description:  Sometimes KCS will run extra units on an empty train to balance the power used as DPUs, since they tend to accumulate in Heavener after a run down from Pittsburg, as theyre not really needed for northbounds. Thus, this empty AEPX train has seven units up front, and a BNSF Grinstein SD 70MAC on the rear just for good measure.
Photo Date:  1/23/2018  Upload Date: 2/4/2018 5:19:08 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8510(SD70ACe) BNSF 5998(ES44AC) KCS 4121(SD70ACe) KCS 3902(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 3936(SD70MAC) KCS 4809(ES44AC)
Views:  189   Comments: 1
In the shadows
Title:  In the shadows
Description:  This northbound AEPX empty train led by a UP SD70ACe is dodging the shadows in the late afternoon sun as it approaches the Ark 59 overpass.
Photo Date:  1/23/2018  Upload Date: 2/4/2018 5:24:44 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8510(SD70ACe) BNSF 5998(ES44AC) KCS 4121(SD70ACe) KCS 3902(SD70MAC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) KCS 3936(SD70MAC) KCS 4809(ES44AC)
Views:  301   Comments: 2
Quiet time
Title:  Quiet time
Description:  All was quiet here til the southbound H train showed, rolled past with its 111 cars, then it was back to the contemplative solitude of a cemetery.
Photo Date:  2/13/2019  Upload Date: 2/21/2019 3:36:24 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4030(SD70ACe) KCS 3961(SD70MAC) BNSF 9274(SD70ACe)
Views:  129   Comments: 1


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