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| Title: |
Anticipation |
| Description: |
Red over red as the signal shows the impending arrival of the southbound. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 5:54:54 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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39 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Meeting the northbound |
| Description: |
The coal train rolls away from me, about to pass the 261 in the siding. I went back up to Y City Rd, about three miles north, where there would be a good sun angle, hoping to get the WW II unit, but they were holding the 261. After waiting almost two hours for the coal train, it didnt look promising, and I had to get home, Next time through... |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 6:15:43 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) CP 9379(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
51 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coal south |
| Description: |
The coal train was making decent time, and got to North Gentry quickly. I got the shot just north of the signal, a pretty basic 3/4 photo. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 5:55:11 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
44 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The northbound |
| Description: |
The 261 train sitting in the siding, awaiting the coal train. You cant see it from here, but when I checked the train, visible through the trees from Ark 59, I found it had CP 6644, the WW II vets unit, third in a consist of four. I was thinking Id shoot the coal train one more time, then get this train up at Y City Rd in Decatur, but it was not to be, as the 261 stayed put, and I had to get home for dinner. It will be back some time. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 5:49:17 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9379(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
45 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Approach |
| Description: |
The signal at North Gentry is showing approach, as the northbound, another 261, has just cleared the south end of the siding. The dispatcher will normal the switch in a moment, and the coal train will roll on south. The northbound has a surprise, but I wont be able to get a shot. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 5:46:05 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9379(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
33 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GP 50s south |
| Description: |
A train behind a set of GP50s roll south on the Rathole. This was a common power consist in the 80s. |
| Photo Date: |
9/29/1984 Upload Date: 7/8/2014 4:37:45 AM |
| Location: |
Harriman, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 7069(GP50) |
| Views: |
414 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Over the top |
| Description: |
The coal train finally reaches the top of the grade, and is now tipping over the edge, and gaining speed as he rolls for Gentry |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 6:46:50 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
42 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Detecting |
| Description: |
The coal train rolls through the detector at MP 218.4 |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 6:38:43 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
45 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Comparison in styles |
| Description: |
The modern era SD 70ACe contrasts with an old classic |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 6:19:14 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
45 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
I think I can |
| Description: |
Deactur is in the middle of a 1.5% grade that crests about a mile south of the station. The coal train struggles to get up the hill, his head end peeking around the curve at Roller St as he slowly comes through town. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 5:58:10 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
36 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Pushing away |
| Description: |
Actually, more like dragging at this point, since the train is heading down into the dip along Wolf Creek, and through Dorsey siding. Hell need them for the climb out, and Ill beat the train to Decatur with time to spare |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 5:52:02 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4282(AC44C6M) CP 8200(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
50 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Cleaned up |
| Description: |
I liked the shot here, because there was an old switch stand, and the remnants of an old customer siding here, that gave the shot some railroad feel. KCS has been doing some work on the line. The old siding and its switch stand are now gone. I have not been up here in a couple of months, but Im guessing they did this some time in the past 60 days or so. They have also removed the switches from the non controlled siding at Siloam Springs, which I dont understand, since it was used often to drop cuts of grain cars til they were needed. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 5:22:10 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
33 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Speed sign |
| Description: |
The 112 car coal train rolls past the speed sign in downtown Gravette, there to advise of the speed restriction for the hard curve under the Ark 72 bridge, and then a long downgrade into Sulphur Springs. MP 210 is in the shadow to the right of the train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 5:14:03 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
40 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wells Fargo |
| Description: |
The famed bank has gone from stagecoaches to hoppers. These probably make more money. Northbound empty |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 6:37:30 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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17 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Oklahoma Gas & Electric |
| Description: |
Every once in a while, an OG&E train will show up here, usually with UP power. This car was in one such empty train at Siloam Springs |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 6:26:35 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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17 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Canned going north |
| Description: |
We were heading to breakfast after our senior light aerobics class, and saw this train sitting on the bridge, just like thea couple nights earlier. I had to go past the head end anyway, so I was able to get a shot, but it turned out it was now a second train, an empty AEPX train headed north. He had a UP leader, not unusual for these trains, and four more units trailing. When I came back the next day, the three trailing units had been picked up, leaving the two head end unit on the train. It sat here a good 36 hours before moving. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 6:02:57 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5729(AC44CWCTE) CP 8824(ES44AC) KCSM 4534(AC44CW) UP 6700(AC44CW) KCS 4892(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
51 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
High clouds |
| Description: |
The south end of the train under a tall thunderhead. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 5:50:31 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8472(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
24 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Team track |
| Description: |
The sun had gone in behind a cloud bank, which didnt help the lighting, but it did even it out. I took the opportunity to get a shot from the team yard on the Lincoln St side of the tracks, getting a better angle on the power. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 5:44:18 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4729(ES44AC) CP 8177(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
46 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Head end |
| Description: |
After dropping my wife home, I went back to see if I could find the head end. It was pulled up short of the Lincoln St crossing, seen here from the road, KCSM and CP units in charge |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 5:40:57 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4729(ES44AC) CP 8177(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
38 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DPU waiting |
| Description: |
We were coming back from bingo, which is at the American Legion hall in town, to find a coal train sitting on the Main St overpass. I swung around at Lake Frances Rd to see what he had on the south end, which turned out to be this BNSF SD 70ACe and a well hidden KCS unit. He was off in the distance, clear in the siding, and canned. This was the shot, such as it is |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/2024 Upload Date: 8/23/2024 5:35:44 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8472(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
29 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Clean hopper |
| Description: |
For once, a relatively clean car thats not covered in graffiti. I grew up in New York in the 60s and 70s, when it was everywhere on the NY subways, and the trains were just covered in spray paint. Now it seems like all the taggers have moved over to the main line. Its good to see a car thats more or less as built. In the yard at Watts. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/16/2024 6:38:31 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
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31 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Down to the station |
| Description: |
Dad took this on the train approaching Zermatt. The train in the track on the right appears to be snowbound. This is high in the Alps, and it looks like winter still has a firm grip at this elevation. |
| Photo Date: |
5/27/1986 Upload Date: 3/30/2016 3:04:11 AM |
| Location: |
Gornergrat, CH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
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93 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long view |
| Description: |
The oil train rolls out from behind the metal barn as it crosses CR 690. Freshly rolled hay bales that will soon fill it are in the foreground of this bucolic scene. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/14/2024 5:35:14 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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38 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DPU |
| Description: |
Since I was sorta trapped, I was able to get this shot of the oil trains DPU as it passed my position. Id have a chase to get through Siloam Springs, and ahead of him. This is at MP 228. I didnt get another shot til south of Watts at MP 239. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 6:10:15 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
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42 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Chewie close up |
| Description: |
The tele view of the oil train squealing through the curve at Chewie Rd |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 6:39:54 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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29 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wide view at Chewie Rd |
| Description: |
South of the crossing shot, the tracks to into a hard S curve as they roll along US 59, seen here in a wide view. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 6:29:33 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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31 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
It was a chase |
| Description: |
I caught up to the train as it was passing Watts yard, but needed another two miles to get ahead far enough for a photo, which I did here at the crossing at MP 239. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 6:20:26 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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30 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Feed mill |
| Description: |
Now in a wide angle view, we see the train passing the one time KCS customer Cobb Vantress feed mill. The train is passing the defect detector at MP 226.7, which will announce an axle count as the train passes my position at Country Club Rd. It will tell me 514 axles, for a total of five units, 121 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 6:04:18 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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31 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long train running |
| Description: |
To borrow from the Doobie Brothers...the oil train in a telephoto shot approaching Country Club Rd after a quick turn and burn from Davidson Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 6:00:45 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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47 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Wide view, same spot |
| Description: |
A wider view shows the train passing one of my favorite photo props, the large tree across the tracks from my position. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 5:58:42 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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28 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coming out of the trees |
| Description: |
The oil train rolls out from the canyon of trees approaching Davidson Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 5:53:02 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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30 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Right spot |
| Description: |
I had taken recycing up to the roll offs, and was looking around to see if anything was up. I heard a hi rail truck get track and time from Watts to Gentry, then a half hour later give it up. I went to Gentry to see if there was something waiting. Id just parked near the crossing, when the gates started down. This was the shot I grabbed from the car, a southbound oil train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 5:44:23 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8060(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4515(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
44 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Interesting stuff |
| Description: |
The Army has a wide variety of equipment for a wide variety of uses. Some of it is here headed north on special TTX flats |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 6:17:11 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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20 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The car with the stencil |
| Description: |
This is one, of many, cars with the "military use only" lettering. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 6:13:23 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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24 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Some are lettered for the DOD |
| Description: |
The Department of Defense also has a sizeable fleet of cars, many of them vehicular flats of some sort, both four and six axle cars, as well as box cars and others. This is one of the flat cars, with DODX reporting marks |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 6:20:12 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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20 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Special service |
| Description: |
I caught a northbound military train at Siloam Springs, and noted this stenciling on the flat cars used for the military vehicles that were in transit. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 6:11:17 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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18 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Going for bagels |
| Description: |
I had called down to Pour Jons for a couple of bagels this morning, and headed for the shop when they texted me. As I came up over the US 412 overpass, I noted a train moving south over Lincoln St. I made a quick turn onto Kenwood, to see if the head end was there already. No, but there was what looked like MOW equipment in the siding. I did a quick run onto US 412, getting this shot from the bridge of a southbound 262. The train in the siding?? A northbound military extra. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:57:48 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 5007(ET44AC) KCS 4145(SD70ACe) CP 8151(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
56 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Got him!! |
| Description: |
After grabbing the 262 off the US 412 overpass, I shot uptown hoping to catch the head end of the northbound, knowing hed be restricted to 15 MPH coming off the siding. I was able to catch him at Country Club Rd, getting this shot at the crossing, with the Cheri Whitlock overpass in the distance. Of note, the US Army train is led by truly foreign power, a Canadian unit leading a Mexican unit. Go figure!! Not my preferred angle, but it was what I could get, and besides, my bagels were waiting. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 6:02:14 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8614(AC44CW) KCSM 4535(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
42 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
And away... |
| Description: |
The DPU has passed and is now rolling away toward Siloam Springs and Texas. Crab legs await!! |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:45:46 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 6789(AC44CW) UP 5648(AC44CWCTE) |
| Views: |
32 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DPU coming |
| Description: |
The DPU on the coal train approaches. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:43:08 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5648(AC44CWCTE) UP 6789(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
29 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Appetizer |
| Description: |
We were headed up to Gentry for an early dinner-a local place there does a crab special on Thursday and Friday-and I was doing my usual run up to Davidson Rd for a signal check and quick run out to Ark 59. As we crossed the tracks south of the Cobb feed mill, three lights came around the corner. I pulled off quickly, and got this 126 car AEPX coal train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:33:38 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8710(SD70ACe) UP 8077(AC45CCTE) UP 2739(ET44AH) |
| Views: |
47 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long look |
| Description: |
A longer view shows the DPU pushing away, past the speed sign for the curve in the distance, and the relay case at left that houses the equipment for the defect detector, so far the only one I know of that announces, "CPKC detector...the others still announce KCS), that will shortly give me an axle count on the train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:23:22 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3672(ET44AC) CP 8844(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
33 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Horsey away |
| Description: |
The DPU on the grain train had a surprise, this NS ET 44, rolling away south, the heavy lifting part of the run up from Gentry now over. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:19:10 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3672(ET44AC) CP 8844(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
34 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Smoking it up now |
| Description: |
Davidson Road is at the top of a long climb out of a section called Sleepy Hollow, a dip between here and Gentry down into a creek valley. Unit trains really work here, and this 101 car grain train is no exception, and it shows as the leader smokes from a bad turbo as it makes a final push to crest the grade. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:13:44 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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KCS 4603(AC44CW) CP 8762(ES44AC) |
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37 Comments: 2 |
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Headed to breakfast |
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We got done with what I call "stretchy class," a senior low impact aerobic class that keeps us moving, and does some good for our old bones. We get done around 1030, so breakfast is the next order of business. Ill often take Davidson Rd out to Ark 59 if were going to Gentry, as we were this day. Aside from being a fairly quick ride out to the state highway, it also passes automatic 226-5, which was flashing yellow as we crossed the tracks. I set up, and this southbound grain train was on us a few minutes later, with an AC 44 that was pretending it was CP 2816. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 4:59:04 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4603(AC44CW) CP 8762(ES44AC) |
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28 Comments: 1 |
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Caught up |
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We saw this northbound rolling into Siloam, but werent able to beat him to the Lincoln St crossing, so off to Gentry. This is the 181 train, with a Vancouver Olympics leader. |
| Photo Date: |
7/24/2024 Upload Date: 8/10/2024 6:23:38 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8876(ES44AC) CP 9357(ES44AC) |
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52 Comments: 1 |
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Olympic |
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The Vancouver Olympic unit close up. It once had more Olympic decoration, but had been painted over in the years following the games. Now its just another of many GEs on the CP system. |
| Photo Date: |
7/24/2024 Upload Date: 8/10/2024 6:35:45 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8876(ES44AC) CP 9357(ES44AC) |
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78 Comments: 2 |
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Working the yard |
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We made a trip to OKC and a few other places,staying in the Omni in OKC, which had a commanding view of the surrounding area from our 16th floor room. One of the view was of the Rocks Biddle St yard, which is now worked by the Stillwater Central, a pair of whose units are working the west end in this morning shot from our room. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/2024 Upload Date: 8/10/2024 5:50:07 AM |
| Location: |
Oklahoma City, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
WAMX 4142(SD40-2) |
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42 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Union Station, wide view |
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A more expansive view of the station shows some of the ancillary buildings associated with the station. That's Interstate 40 in the background, on what would roughly be where the Rock's Choctaw Route sat. Scissortail Park is in the foreground. |
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7/18/2024 Upload Date: 8/7/2024 5:10:10 AM |
| Location: |
Oklahoma City, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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22 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Union Station |
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Oklahoma City had two passenger stations, the Santa Fe station that is the northern end of the Heartland Flyer, downtown. The other station, now bereft of tracks, is south of downtown, tucked in between Scissortail Park and I 40, and once served the Frisco, MKT and Rock Island. Its in good shape, and can be seen easily from the Omni, where we stated recently in this view from our 16th floor room. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/2024 Upload Date: 8/7/2024 4:49:38 AM |
| Location: |
Oklahoma City, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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26 Comments: 1 |
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