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| Title: |
Power up front |
| Description: |
An empty AEPX coal train returning to the UP at Kansas City has all the power up front, and one lone UP AC4400 tagging along on the rear. Its about to pass the Cobb feed mill as it rolls toward Gentry as a couple of thunder clouds build to the east. |
| Photo Date: |
6/30/2011 Upload Date: 9/9/2016 4:18:53 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 6461(AC44CW) UP 6812(AC44CW) KCS 4698(ES44AC) KCS 4699(ES44AC) |
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385 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed back |
| Description: |
An empty AEPX coal train rolls north for KC behind a pair of UP units and a couple of Belles. Believe it or not, there is a DPU on this train, one UP GE tagging along on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
6/30/2011 Upload Date: 9/9/2016 4:21:42 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 6461(AC44CW) UP 6812(AC44CW) KCS 4698(ES44AC) KCS 4699(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
366 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Grain empties |
| Description: |
An 80 car empty grain train gets underway out of the siding after waiting for a southbound AEPX coal train, followed by a coil steel train. All this under a big sky. |
| Photo Date: |
9/5/2015 Upload Date: 9/10/2015 4:32:19 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4869(ES44AC) KCS 4698(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
138 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Pushing them south |
| Description: |
The DPU on the TXUX train pushes 125 cars south past the station. The empty AEPX train is in the siding, and already starting to move. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2017 Upload Date: 11/10/2017 5:18:44 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PRLX 223(SD75M) KCS 4698(ES44AC) BNSF 6369(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
264 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Fading away |
| Description: |
Old diesels are like old soldiers-they never die, just fade into lease fleets. Hard to believe the trailing unit, an ex Santa Fe SD 75 is over 20 years old, and now working for a leasing company. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2017 Upload Date: 11/5/2017 4:47:41 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6369(ES44AC) KCS 4698(ES44AC) PRLX 223(SD75M) |
| Views: |
216 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Face to face |
| Description: |
The oil train rolls toward the M train, which will be moving up to the signal momentarily. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/2023 Upload Date: 1/14/2023 5:15:36 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8773(ES44AC) NS 7541(ES44DC) KCS 4698(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
51 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Got him |
| Description: |
Just like the day before, I heard the horn and took off. I wasnt able to catch the train in Siloam, but did get ahead to get the shot here on Main St in Gentry. My luck ran out about two minutes later, when I pulled out onto Ark 59. I made it up to CP North Gentry easily enough, then got bogged down in a back up behind a guy in a tractor who decided 1630 on a Monday was a good time to go out onto a busy two lane road with few passing zones, doing every bit of 20 MPH. When I caught up to him, I could still see the 261 train pulling away, and my chance of getting a shot at Decatur or Gravette going away quickly. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/2023 Upload Date: 10/14/2023 5:14:14 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4698(ES44AC) CP 7032(SD70ACU) KCSM 4098(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
44 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Next catch |
| Description: |
After the disaster with the tractor, it took me til Sulphur Springs to catch up, getting this shot off the Ark 59 bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/2023 Upload Date: 10/14/2023 5:18:39 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4698(ES44AC) CP 7032(SD70ACU) KCSM 4098(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
51 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Kings Highway |
| Description: |
The road that comes out of Noel is Kings Highway, which crosses the tracks here at Butler Creek. Access from the south is via Bluff Dwellers Road, off MO 59, an easy turn off that takes you to a low water crossing and this shot, |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/2023 Upload Date: 10/14/2023 5:21:39 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4698(ES44AC) CP 7032(SD70ACU) KCSM 4098(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
46 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
River crossing |
| Description: |
The KCS crosses the Elk River here at Ginger Blue, a good shot most of the year, though in the winter the sun doesnt make it around to the west side of the bridge. Its 1700, and this side of the train is barely in the sun. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/2023 Upload Date: 10/14/2023 5:25:12 AM |
| Location: |
Ginger Blue, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4698(ES44AC) CP 7032(SD70ACU) KCSM 4098(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
105 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Last light |
| Description: |
Its now pushing 1730, and the shadows are falling. A last look in daylight as the 261 rolls its 37 cars north, just south of Anderson. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/2023 Upload Date: 10/14/2023 5:29:22 AM |
| Location: |
Anderson, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4698(ES44AC) CP 7032(SD70ACU) KCSM 4098(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
87 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Last look |
| Description: |
Not the best lighting. The tracks come around a sweeping curve to the right, making for a mostly backlit photo, but it was worth a try from the drug store parking lot. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/2023 Upload Date: 10/14/2023 5:36:10 AM |
| Location: |
Anderson, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4698(ES44AC) CP 7032(SD70ACU) KCSM 4098(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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