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| Title: |
Grain DPU |
| Description: |
The northbound empty train, despite being only 30 cars, had a DPU, which was also a set of spanking clean KCS and CP power, here at the Ark 59S crossing north of town. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2022 Upload Date: 9/25/2022 6:34:15 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 5001(ET44AC) CP 7002(SD70ACU) |
| Views: |
105 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
First train |
| Description: |
My wife got me a Canon T8i for Christmas, to replace a failing T1i-its a dozen years old, and probably obsolete by now(unlike my Nikkormats, which are 60 years old, and still work just fine. Too bad no more Kodachrome). So I took it out hoping to catch something, usually theres a southbound Q train in the afternoon. The Q train never materialized, but this empty grain train finally did, just as the light was going. I caught it at Y City Rd in Decatur, with enough sun to get some glint. So, this is my first train shot with the new camera. Looks like it performed well in iffy conditions. A trio of diesels, including an NS GE, roll 105 cars north |
| Photo Date: |
1/4/2023 Upload Date: 1/11/2023 5:38:22 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4779(ES44AC) KCS 4173(SD70ACe) NS 8088(ES44AC) |
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61 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Getting ready |
| Description: |
A light power set is on the Swepco spur, getting ready to go north. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:23:16 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4866(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
36 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lined up |
| Description: |
The lite power move is lined from the spur to the main, and will be underway shortly with at least seven units. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:26:32 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4866(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
38 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Just caught him |
| Description: |
After we saw the light power move, we came out to take a ride in the sun, stopping at nearby Crystal Lake to do some bird watching and enjoy the 60 degree day. As we were heading back to Ark 59, we saw a southbound rolling past. A quick dash into Decatur got me ahead of the train, but just enough to jump and get a grab shot. So we have BNSF 6359 leading a 125 car TXUX train, and a nice shot of a light pole with an F unit behind it, |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:32:12 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6359(ES44AC) BNSF 6076(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
65 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Pulling hard |
| Description: |
Theres a shot but steep grade for southbounds through Decatur, and it was easy to beat the train down to Y City Rd for this shot of him topping the grade, and passing signal 219-1 and 2. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:36:07 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6359(ES44AC) BNSF 6076(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
43 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Long shadow |
| Description: |
The TXUX train rolls into the sun at Floyd Moore Rd, the nose lit while the train throws a long shadow in the fading light. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:40:43 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6359(ES44AC) BNSF 6076(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
30 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 220 |
| Description: |
The coal train passes MP 220 as it approaches Floyd Moore Rd in late afternoon golden sun |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:47:00 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6359(ES44AC) BNSF 6076(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
36 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Going north |
| Description: |
We chased the coal train down into Gentry, only to be stymied by 5 PM traffic. As I looked in hopes of catching a glimpse of the DPU on the coal train, and noticed there was a northbound in the siding. I ran up to Y City Road in hopes there would be enough sun to get a passable shot. It was hit and miss, but it sorta worked, with three units on this northbound 49 car M SHKC. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:55:01 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4012(SD70ACe) KCSM 4523(AC44CW) KCSM 4665(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
60 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
One shot |
| Description: |
We were out doing some non rail related driving around, and found this northbound empty coal train going away from us at Gravette. I knew I would not be able to catch him at Noel, since the head end was going under this bridge as I pulled up, but I got the DPU off the Ark 59 bridge north of Sulphur Springs just as the sun was going behind the trees. Vestiges of a winter storm are still in the rocks as the train pulls away. |
| Photo Date: |
2/2/2023 Upload Date: 2/9/2023 5:38:22 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8525(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
51 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
M train |
| Description: |
We had gone up to drop some stuff off at the kids house in Gentry, and decided to take a ride out through the countryside to check out some places that may have had some changes in the last six months or so. Our wanderings had us rolling across the KCS in Decatur just as a northbound was approaching the crossing there. The shadows prevented a good shot, but I thought if I could beat him to Gravette, there might be a chance before the light went. Its kinda dappled, but I got the northbound M SHKC and 58 cars, as it crossed Dallas St. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/2023 Upload Date: 2/9/2023 5:52:52 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4689(ES44AC) KCS 4006(SD70ACe) KCS 4844(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
71 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
I heard a train |
| Description: |
And beat it out of the house toward town. I found the dodger at Kenwood St, switching Pipelife and was trying to work a shot there, when the northbound came up behind it. I didnt get him in Siloam Springs, but was able to beat him to Gentry, where I shot him off the Ark 12 overpass, along with a badly faded Bulbasaur. Three units in a merger consist have H SHKCs 56 cars rolling north. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2023 Upload Date: 5/27/2023 5:37:39 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8951(ES44AC) KCSM 4083(SD70ACe) KCS 4175(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
77 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Close but no cigar |
| Description: |
I ran up through town after catching em all at the Ark 12 bridge, to try to shoot him at North Gentry, since the light favored the roadside shot there, and it was about the best light I was going to get on a northbound that time of day. For some reason, there was a lot of traffic, and I was barely able to get the head end as a Yellow truck passed, in one of those shots you see in TRP Magazine. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2023 Upload Date: 5/27/2023 5:51:49 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8951(ES44AC) KCSM 4083(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
41 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Out in the open |
| Description: |
Finally the traffic relented, and I was able to get a good shot of the train as it rolled through the end of the siding. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2023 Upload Date: 5/27/2023 6:03:39 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8951(ES44AC) KCSM 4083(SD70ACe) KCS 4175(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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