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3/3/2025
 
 
 
 
  Viewing the last 200 photos I selected as my favorite Pictures.
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Nose on
Title:  Nose on
Description:  A front end shot of NYC 3001 at the NYC Museum in Elkhart
Photo Date:  6/20/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:37:54 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NYC 3001(4-8-2)
Views:  1031   Comments: 0
UP 6467 north on the former MoPac
Title:  UP 6467 north on the former MoPac
Description:  UP 6467 at
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 8:48:58 PM
Location:  Grady, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6467(AC44CW) UP 5910(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  404   Comments: 0
Old main
Title:  Old main
Description:  A northbound NYSW train rolls up the old DLW S&U track at Old State Road. The new connection to the D&H can be seen graded to the left of the train.
Photo Date:  9/18/1990  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 4:06:12 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3624(SD45)
Views:  465   Comments: 1
Just barely
Title:  Just barely
Description:  The light was getting low, and I knew I had a shot here at Y City Rd, if the train kept moving, It did, and I got this last shot with some snow in the distance.
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 3/2/2025 6:31:31 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM)
Views:  3   Comments: 0
On the crossing
Title:  On the crossing
Description:  The 181s power crosses Davidson Rd, still some snow in evidence across the tracks in the field.
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 3/2/2025 6:28:24 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM)
Views:  2   Comments: 0
Davidson Rd
Title:  Davidson Rd
Description:  The 181 has made it up the hill from Watts with a sizeable train of 65 stack platforms and 22 auto racks, probably the only reason I beat him through Siloam Springs-that and I made most of the lights. The snow is making its last stand. Tomorrow will get into the 50s, and there wont much left
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 3/2/2025 6:22:18 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM)
Views:  2   Comments: 0
Next days 181
Title:  Next days 181
Description:  Saturday was much brighter, though the trains were still hiding on us. We caught the 181 on the Illinois River as it made its way north. Despite the cold, the snow is gradually disappearing.
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:52:00 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM)
Views:  11   Comments: 1
On the bridge
Title:  On the bridge
Description:  The gloom couldnt take the chill out of the air, and the wider view of the Illinois River waterscape couldnt ease the gloom. The 181, which had passed the working 261, rolls north into the climb up to Siloam Springs.
Photo Date:  2/21/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:48:06 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8029(AC4400CWM) CP 7003(SD70ACU)
Views:  6   Comments: 1
Wider view
Title:  Wider view
Description:  Pulling up a little got me a more broadside shot of the trailing unit here at MP 237
Photo Date:  2/21/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:42:29 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4010(SD70ACe)
Views:  1   Comments: 0
DPU
Title:  DPU
Description:  I ran down to the other end of the yard to see if the 262 had a DPU. Turned out he did, one of the original SD 70ACes.
Photo Date:  2/21/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:40:08 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4010(SD70ACe)
Views:  4   Comments: 0
Working the yard
Title:  Working the yard
Description:  The 262 with a dirty AC 44 and SD 70 work the yards at Watts. Hell pick up 14 here, and leave town with 121 cars
Photo Date:  2/21/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:38:03 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4595(AC44CW) KCSM 4071(SD70ACe)
Views:  2   Comments: 0
Trailing along
Title:  Trailing along
Description:  After I got the head end, it was just a matter of waiting out the DPU. I was hoping for a couple of units-the KCS, which crosses this line here, almost always runs their coal trains in a 2x3 configuration here-but UP runs them 2x1. Of course, their grade profile is a lot more favorable than the up and down KCS. Still, a nicely lit and nicely clean SD 70AH was a good finish as the train rolls past the local library, in the distance.
Photo Date:  2/28/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:31:20 AM
Location:  Sallisaw, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8949(SD70AH)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
Through the glass
Title:  Through the glass
Description:  We were driving through Sallisaw OK making our way to US 59 north, when we were stopped at a light, and heard a horn behind us. A quick dive into a parking lot with a clear view got this going away shot of a coal train through the windshield. Glad I had just washed it!! UP 7174 was a returning friend; I had shot it on the KCS about a month earlier.
Photo Date:  2/28/2025  Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:26:52 AM
Location:  Sallisaw, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9796(C44-9W) UP 7174(AC44CW)
Views:  4   Comments: 0
Matson
Title:  Matson
Description:  Its getting where you cant find a clean car or container anywhere. This Matson container looked freshly painted, so it was a natural to capture while it was still relatively pristine. On the 181 train at Davidson Rd.
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 5:55:44 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  6   Comments: 0
Snowy tracks
Title:  Snowy tracks
Description:  We had things to do the next day, and I didnt get out til afternoon. It started out sunny, then went downhill as the clouds moved in, but no trains. I camped out at the north end of Watts, hoping for a southbound to come along. It was a long wait, and then it was the 262 that arrived and worked the yard.
Photo Date:  2/21/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:52:26 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  3   Comments: 0
Butlers Bluff
Title:  Butlers Bluff
Description:  The snow highlights the rocks above the tracks, making them more prominent than they appear without the white blanket, as the train rolls along Butler Creek.This will be the last shot. Ill catch up to him again near Goodman MO, where brake issues will strand him on the single track. Theres a southbound at McElhany that now cant proceed, which would have been a fabulous chase in the snow and bright sun. Sadly, not to be. Some days, the railfan gods frown upon you.
Photo Date:  2/20/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:41:23 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW)
Views:  9   Comments: 0
Into the curve
Title:  Into the curve
Description:  The grain move rolls into the S curve that follows Butler Creek under the Ark 59 overpass.
Photo Date:  2/20/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:34:24 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
Snowy straight on
Title:  Snowy straight on
Description:  The empty grain train rolls along the tangent approaching the Ark 59 overpass, its hundred cars stretched out behind
Photo Date:  2/20/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:28:55 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
First catch
Title:  First catch
Description:  The snow event of mid January was not to be the last for the season. Another storm dropped about 6" on northwest Arkansas in mid February. Then it got cold; the next couple days the high didnt get out of the teens. I moved here to get away from this!! Northbound empty grain rolls into Gravette in stinging cold. The weather would get the best of the train a few miles north in Goodman Mo, and kill what would have been an epic day with a southbound.
Photo Date:  2/20/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:25:27 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
Milestone
Title:  Milestone
Description:  The 181 train never fails to provide a view of containers not normally seen most places, such as these Milestone boxes on the 181 train at Davidson Rd
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 5:57:26 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  6   Comments: 0
Yellow??
Title:  Yellow??
Description:  Less that truckload carrier departed the transportation scene in bankruptcy in 2024. There seems to be a resurrection, as we see a YRC container northbound on 181 at Davidson Rd
Photo Date:  2/22/2025  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:00:20 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  7   Comments: 0
UP station
Title:  UP station
Description:  The Union Pacific station at Ellis Kan, nicely restored.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 11/13/2024 5:27:40 AM
Location:  Ellis, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  37   Comments: 1
At the junction
Title:  At the junction
Description:  No, not a rail junction. This Santa Fe 2-6-2 is at the junction of US 50 and 350 in La Junta Colo, still a busy place on the BNSF.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 6:26:22 AM
Location:  La Junta, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 1024(2-6-2)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
Coming back around
Title:  Coming back around
Description:  If you stay in one place long enough, youll see the same equipment multiple times. This car for Potenza, a skin treatment, has already done a trip to Denver, and now is on it way back from the airport. Ive been here a couple hours; this is where I came in. I have to start back for home, and want to get some action on the Joint Line on the way. This is the last train Ill see on the RTD today. Ill be back in April for my wifes recheck at National Jewish Health.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 6:17:56 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4041(Electric M.U.)
Views:  26   Comments: 0
DIA next
Title:  DIA next
Description:  The set in the previous photo rolls away from the camera as it heads for DIA. It will be there in about ten minutes
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:53:36 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4043(Electric M.U.)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
Peeking out
Title:  Peeking out
Description:  The train led by 4024 now starts to its last stop at DIA, passing the mountains peeking out between a couple of cottonwoods.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:49:00 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4024(Electric M.U.)
Views:  11   Comments: 0
Dwell time
Title:  Dwell time
Description:  The next DIA bound train is sitting with its doors open aa it exchanges passengers. It will be moving momentarily.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:46:28 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4024(Electric M.U.)
Views:  17   Comments: 0
Head for the mountains
Title:  Head for the mountains
Description:  The 4057 enters the Pena Blvd station to a backdrop of snow covered peaks as it passes the Front Range en route to Denver
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:42:53 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4057(Electric M.U.)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
Framed
Title:  Framed
Description:  Next up was westbound 4057, framed by the catenary supports as it slows for the Pena Blvd stop
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:38:25 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4057(Electric M.U.)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
Follow that train!!
Title:  Follow that train!!
Description:  So says the wrap on the side of 4012, here at Pena Blvd.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:35:24 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4012(Electric M.U.)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
Low and high
Title:  Low and high
Description:  The train is in the station at ground level-actually, about 5500 feet elevation-and were looking at the Front Range, whose peaks top 13,000 feet.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:34:09 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  20   Comments: 0
City bound
Title:  City bound
Description:  A Denver bound train approaches the switch for to the westbound track. A truck rolls away to the north on Pena Blvd in the distance. Despite the name, the station here actually has no access to Pena Blvd, which is an expressway here.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:31:08 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4063(Electric M.U.)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Coming in for the stop
Title:  Coming in for the stop
Description:  The train in the previous shot now approaches the Pena Blvd station, slowing for his stop here.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:37:23 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4063(Electric M.U.)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
Into the station
Title:  Into the station
Description:  The Denver bound train now slows for the station stop here.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:30:59 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4003(Electric M.U.)
Views:  24   Comments: 1
Through the switch
Title:  Through the switch
Description:  A Union Station bound train rolls through the switch from single track just east of Pena Blvd
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:27:51 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4003(Electric M.U.)
Views:  26   Comments: 0
And away
Title:  And away
Description:  The DIA bound train knocks down the signal as it takes to the single track en route to DIA.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:15:45 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4041(Electric M.U.)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
Come on...
Title:  Come on...
Description:  Theres nothing so inviting as a green signal, this one calling to the DIA bound train about to depart Pena Blvd
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:10:29 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4040(Electric M.U.)
Views:  26   Comments: 0
Watching the platform
Title:  Watching the platform
Description:  The motorman looks down the side of the train as it exchanges riders, the Front Range looking in the distance.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:01:21 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4040(Electric M.U.)
Views:  20   Comments: 0
And here it is
Title:  And here it is
Description:  The westbound promised by the station sign has arrived, now making its last stop before the airport.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:58:49 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4040(Electric M.U.)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
4014 and the Front Range
Title:  4014 and the Front Range
Description:  The rear car on the train just arriving is RTD 4014, which we see against the backdrop of the Front Range, to the west of Denver.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:42:29 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4014(Electric M.U.)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
Undecorated
Title:  Undecorated
Description:  Not entirely. This set has no wrapped cars, and is all in the standard RTD scheme.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 7:00:18 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4032(Electric M.U.)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
Rolling toward Denver
Title:  Rolling toward Denver
Description:  The most recent westbound rolls away past the last of the fall color.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:52:43 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4016(Electric M.U.)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
Leaving west
Title:  Leaving west
Description:  A westbound for Denver leaves Pena Blvd.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:58:56 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4033(UNKNOWN)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
Mountain view
Title:  Mountain view
Description:  Sorta...the peaks of the Front Range are visible above the train,
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:49:40 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  23   Comments: 0
Airport bound and maintenance
Title:  Airport bound and maintenance
Description:  Another ad wrapped train approaches as the landscape crew mows the area around the station.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:45:42 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  23   Comments: 0
Its a wrap
Title:  Its a wrap
Description:  One of the ad wrapped cars leads a train toward Denver
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:34:08 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4065(Electric M.U.)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
A different 4014
Title:  A different 4014
Description:  I just spent two days following UPs 4014 across Kansas and Colorado(and another day chasing it in Oklahoma), only to find myself looking at a much different example of that same number, this one advertising a car rental operation. Kind of appropriate, since it will shortly be at DIA
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:38:04 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4014(Electric M.U.)
Views:  22   Comments: 0
Splitting the poles
Title:  Splitting the poles
Description:  The 4043 splits the catenary supports as it accelerates out of Pena Blvd
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:41:39 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4043(Electric M.U.)
Views:  23   Comments: 0
First train of the day
Title:  First train of the day
Description:  The morning after I followed UP 4014 to Strasburg, I went down to Pena Blvd on the RTD to get some shots I had wanted to do on my previous trip. I spent a couple hours there, enjoying the interurban appeal of the trains heading to and from the airport. One was arriving as I walked up to the station, and I caught it between the catenary supports.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 5:38:47 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4057(Electric M.U.)
Views:  30   Comments: 0
Airport bound
Title:  Airport bound
Description:  An eastbound train rolls to a station stop, approqching the Pena Blvd station.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 5:42:45 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4016(Electric M.U.)
Views:  36   Comments: 0


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