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| Title: |
Northbound DPU |
| Description: |
The DPU on the northbound H train sits just south of Barren Fork, a good way south of the Watts yard. Todays train is 147 cars, so they needed the push!! |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/2017 Upload Date: 9/11/2017 5:21:48 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
85 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Straight on |
| Description: |
The southbound passes the automatic at MP 238 as it progresses toward Westville. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:14:46 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
56 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Into the curve |
| Description: |
The M train rolls into the curve at the end of the long tangent. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:19:17 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
53 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Chewie Road |
| Description: |
The M train rolls through the S curve at Chewie Rd south of Watts. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:21:01 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
49 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
By the barn |
| Description: |
The M train rolls past the barn and now somewhat depleted group of hay bales just north of Westville, seen from US 59. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:23:58 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
57 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Livestock audience |
| Description: |
The M train passes the steer that are grazing in the pasture, witnessing the passage. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:27:10 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
75 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Long view |
| Description: |
The M train is approaching Baron, nicely framed by the lineside trees, seen in a telephoto view from the road crossing. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:35:26 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
70 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Gone to church |
| Description: |
The church is not currently serving as a place of worship, but does make a nice photo prop. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:36:38 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
70 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Passing the automatic |
| Description: |
The M train blows past signal 250-0 at Baron |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:37:52 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
61 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Delayed chase |
| Description: |
I was dropping my recycling when a northbound empty coal train went past the dump. I was elbows deep in a bin of plastic and glass, and it was already 1515-they close at 1530-so I needed to get the task done. The coal train-led by a KCS unit and a BNSF Grinstein-was moving too fast for me to catch up, and I had things to do at home. After he went by, a track car got track and time to go to Gentry, then clear up by 1600, there was a southbound at Noel. I went to Gentry at 1600, no train, so worked north, finally catching him coming across Roller Av as I got into town. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:08:37 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
52 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Old and new |
| Description: |
The M KCSH rolls past the stuffed and mounted F 7 and caboose at Decatur. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:15:58 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Peeking over the hill |
| Description: |
The M train is making slow progress south, now peeking up over the crest as it strains to get to the top. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:23:42 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
47 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Over the top |
| Description: |
The head end is now over the crest, but still pulling as most of the train is on the uphill side. Ill make a run for Gentry to get him off the Ark 12 bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:27:00 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Broad view |
| Description: |
This view of Gentry shows the station area, now only a set off track, and the Curran Feed Store, a prominent part of a photo from this point of view. We see the train stretched out to the curve north of McKee Foods, makers of Little Debbie cakes. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:30:44 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
83 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Closer view |
| Description: |
One of the things I like to do is get some of the environment in a photo-lineside hardware, which is harder and harder to find, now that pole lines are largely a memory-buildings, and such. This old building is adjacent to the tracks just north of the overpass, and makes a nice prop. The M train rolls past, about to pass under Ark 12. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:34:55 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
56 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Feed mill |
| Description: |
I dont usually get a shot of a train "downtown" as it were in Siloam; Im usually up at Davidson Rd, or at Tahlequah St, at the north end of the siding. Southbounds havea a good climb out of the Flint Creek valley, and I knew if I hustled, I could beat him to town for this shot of him rolling past the old feed mill adjacent to the tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:39:44 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
99 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
By the office |
| Description: |
I dont usually do chases that go through Siloam Springs-I live there, most of my excursions begin and end there, and its a challenge to drive through(lots of lights and traffic), where the trains roll on. It was early enough in the day to stay the course on this M train, so I went with it. I didnt get down to Watts fast enough to get him coming off the Illinois River, but was able to beat him to the yard. The M train passes the yard office and customer Bakery Feeds non stop. The chase is once again on. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 5/1/2023 6:07:56 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
78 Comments: 1 |
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