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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
6/11/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Kansas City Southern De Mexico
Model:GE ES44ACBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:59074Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Other locos with this serial:  KCSM 4733(ES44AC)
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What were waiting for
Title:  What were waiting for
Description:  The northbound empty coal train, three of its seven units visible here, rolls past the waiting grain train that I heard from home a little while earlier. This is not my second train of the day.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/5/2023 6:20:12 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4047(SD70ACe) UP 6266(AC44CW) KCS 4822(ES44AC) UP 5477(AC45CCTE) KCSM 4733(ES44AC)
Views:  431   Comments: 1
Caught him
Title:  Caught him
Description:  The head end of the empty coal train rolls around the curve to the signal at CP Sosth Watts, where it will meet the southbound grain train I heard from the house. Had to really run for this one. Sometimes an inspired engineer and a light(relatively speaking) t{ain can be a challenge for the chaser!!
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/8/2023 5:34:57 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4822(ES44AC) UP 5477(AC45CCTE) KCSM 4733(ES44AC) KCS 4778(ES44AC)
Views:  446   Comments: 1
South end meet
Title:  South end meet
Description:  The head end of the coal train has arrived at CP South Watts, where it will sit for a little bit, as there is another train to meet. The DPU on the 261 is about to pull away.
Photo Date:  5/11/2024  Upload Date: 5/19/2024 6:34:12 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4733(ES44AC) NS 4689(AC44C6M) KCSM 4650(ES44AC)
Views:  197   Comments: 1
Rolling him by
Title:  Rolling him by
Description:  The crew of the coal train is on the ground to give the 181 a roll by as it meets them at CP South Watts.
Photo Date:  5/11/2024  Upload Date: 5/20/2024 6:04:31 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4733(ES44AC) CP 8019(AC4400CWM) NS 4689(AC44C6M) KCS 4839(ES44AC)
Views:  251   Comments: 1
Rolling along
Title:  Rolling along
Description:  The coal train, now able to proceed, rolls south along the sweeping curve near MP 239, its cars stretched through the curve.
Photo Date:  5/11/2024  Upload Date: 5/20/2024 6:19:27 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 4689(AC44C6M) KCSM 4733(ES44AC)
Views:  167   Comments: 2
Good place for an engine with a horse on it
Title:  Good place for an engine with a horse on it
Description:  The TXUX train passes the farm on CR 690, its NS horse passing by a quick lunch of hay, neatly stacked next to the tracks.
Photo Date:  5/11/2024  Upload Date: 5/20/2024 6:25:17 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 4689(AC44C6M) KCSM 4733(ES44AC)
Views:  195   Comments: 1
Pastoral scene
Title:  Pastoral scene
Description:  The wide view here shows some of the surrounding farm and the bucolic splendor of the area.
Photo Date:  5/11/2024  Upload Date: 5/20/2024 6:28:27 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 4689(AC44C6M) KCSM 4733(ES44AC)
Views:  162   Comments: 1
The DPU
Title:  The DPU
Description:  My wife likes NS units, largely for the herald with the horse. This train was unusual, in that we dont get a lot of horsies here, and hardly at all on coal trains. Its pulling away south of Decatur, passing the defect detector at MP 218.4
Photo Date:  5/15/2024  Upload Date: 5/24/2024 5:45:34 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Diane Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 4689(AC44C6M) KCSM 4733(ES44AC)
Views:  206   Comments: 1


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