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Slowing for the switch |
| Description: |
H SHKC slows to take the switch into the siding at Watts, where it will set off and pick up. The construction in the foreground is for the US 59 widening project, which is now starting work through Watts to connect the 4 lane sections on either side of town. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/2017 Upload Date: 9/11/2017 5:23:14 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4858(ES44AC) KCS 4787(ES44AC) EMDX 1609(SD70AH-T4) KCS 4360(SW1500) |
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634 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking an approach signal |
| Description: |
H SHKC passes signal 238.2, which was showing approach as I drove past. Hell go into the siding at Watts, to work the yard there. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/2017 Upload Date: 9/11/2017 5:18:24 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4858(ES44AC) KCS 4787(ES44AC) EMDX 1609(SD70AH-T4) KCS 4360(SW1500) |
| Views: |
663 Comments: 2 |
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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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274 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) |
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273 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: |
303 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
DPU |
| Description: |
The DPU on the grain train finally rolls past. I knew the 261 was still working at Watts, and for a moment considered following this train to Westville, another four miles south, where the shot across the field was beautifully lit, with hay bales scattered around it, but also wanted to get a shot of the 261 on the Illinois River. This was as far as I went with the grain move. |
| Photo Date: |
9/29/2024 Upload Date: 10/9/2024 6:17:37 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4858(ES44AC) CP 9774(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
104 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Back together at last |
| Description: |
The new crew has reconnected the back of the train that had been cut to clear the crossing, and is now making its move to go south. The DPUs are clearing the crossing as I observe. |
| Photo Date: |
9/29/2024 Upload Date: 10/9/2024 5:44:48 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4858(ES44AC) CP 9774(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
111 Comments: 1 |
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