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| Title: |
First catch |
| Description: |
I heard a southbound from the house, and took off. I cant get through Siloam and still catch one of these trains, so I usually take Ark 59 south and US 62 to Westville, which allows me to get the across the field farm shot most of the time. It worked today, I caught this southbound grain train here in bucolic splendor rolling 100 cars of midwest grain toward Mexico. |
| Photo Date: |
4/4/2024 Upload Date: 4/18/2024 6:21:13 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8732(ES44AC) CP 9776(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
81 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Panoramic view |
| Description: |
The power on the grain train rolls south, having crosseed CR 690, and passed the patch of hay bales in this view looking south toward the Ozarks. |
| Photo Date: |
4/4/2024 Upload Date: 4/18/2024 6:25:04 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8732(ES44AC) CP 9776(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
70 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Didnt quite make it |
| Description: |
I like the shots at Baron, since there is a long tangent approaching from the north, allowing several views here. Sometimes I dont get them all; even with a 65 MPH speed limit on US 59, its two lane, and there are an amazing(to me) number of people who are content to run 50 MPH there. So I dont always get the tele shot. Still, the shot is pretty good there, and I did OK for getting sandbagged by a slowpoke en route. |
| Photo Date: |
4/4/2024 Upload Date: 4/18/2024 6:40:29 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8732(ES44AC) CP 9776(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
66 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
DPU on the bridge |
| Description: |
After Baron, there arent any good photo spots til you get into Stilwell, but there is the bridge over Barren Fork Creek, a plate girder affair that connects to a through truss. Its better for a northbound, or a southbound with a DPU, which is what we have here. I wont beat him to the next spot, a county road crossing about 1.5 miles south, but the shot here is worth doing. The two unit DPU, a pair of CP Golden Rodents filling out this all CP, all GE power consist, rolls south, seen from adjacent US 59. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:46:59 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9776(AC44CW) CP 9780(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
90 Comments: 1 |
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