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| Title: |
Mixing them up |
| Description: |
The DPU on the coal train is a mix of home road and foreign power; usually there are a pair of KCS units added to the 2x1 these trains arrive at Kansas City with. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/2023 Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:52:54 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6379(ES44AC) KCSM 4528(AC44CW) NS 4195(AC44C6M) |
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61 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DPU and an automatic |
| Description: |
Back where I started, the DPU with an NS unit passes automatic 226-5 as it makes its way south. Time to head home after a quick out and back to Decatur, an efficient chase of two trains. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/2023 Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:55:20 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4195(AC44C6M) KCSM 4528(AC44CW) BNSF 6379(ES44AC) |
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45 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Short trip, long wait |
| Description: |
I heard a horn as we came back from lunch, and took off into town, expecting to chase a northbound. That guess was correct; what I didnt know was there was a southbound coal train holding the main. By the time I got it together, I had missed both trains at Siloam. I didnt want to be out too long, so went to Gentry to get the northbound. I got ahead, and climbed the embankment to the Ark 12 overpass, and waited...and waited...and waited. I figure either he was holding south of town to meet a southbound-KCS does this so not to block crossings-or he was picking up DPUs from the Flint Creek Spur. I was about to give up on the effort after about 30 minutes in 95 degrees, when I heard a horn to the south, and shortly after saw a column of smoke as the train pulled away from the spur, about a mile to the south. Here he is, four original units, and three picked up off the spur, with 115 empty oil cans. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 5:54:22 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8043(AC4400CWM) CP 9728(AC44CW) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4113(SD70ACe) CP 8707(ES44AC) KCSM 4540(AC44CW) KCS 4804(ES44AC) |
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49 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Southbound |
| Description: |
The oil train met this southbound merchandiser. I now felt like the standing on a hot bridge was not such a waste of time after all. Power is a now common CP/KCS set. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:10:14 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8621(AC44CW) KCS 4600(AC44CW) |
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38 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Tall sky |
| Description: |
A different composition put a lot of sky over the southbound. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:16:03 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8621(AC44CW) KCS 4600(AC44CW) |
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37 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Front and back |
| Description: |
The head end of the southbound passes the rear of the oil train. The oil trains usually run with power on both ends. For some reason, this one has all four units up front. Hazardous material trains apparently dont need buffers any more, and Ive seen a number of these trains without them this year. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:21:58 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8621(AC44CW) |
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31 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Almost back |
| Description: |
Now that I had spent almost 90 minutes on a 12 mile chase, I was back at Davidson Rd to shoot the southbound reaching the summit of the grade up from Sleepy Hollow. I beat him by about 3 minutes, since he had to take the south Gentry siding switch at 15 MPH. Not much lead, but enough to get set up before he showed. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:26:34 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8621(AC44CW) KCS 4600(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
48 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Signal |
| Description: |
The southbound passes the automatic at MP 226.5, knocking it down. In the distance is the relay case for the defect detector at MP 226.7. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:37:00 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8621(AC44CW) KCS 4161(SD70ACe) |
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59 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Mid train help |
| Description: |
The southbound train had 93 cars of mixed freight, with this mid train DPU 59 cars deep. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2023 Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:28:55 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4161(SD70ACe) |
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32 Comments: 0 |
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