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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/14/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Kansas City Southern
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP40-3Built As:PC 3186 (GP40)
Serial Number:34627Order No:7145
Frame Number:7145-17Built:11/1968
Notes:Ex-PC
Other locos with this serial:  KCS 758(GP40) KCS 4788(GP40-3) KCS 2835(GP40-3)
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Dodger and the tower
Title:  Dodger and the tower
Description:  The Siloam Dodger poses under the Siloam Springs water tower as it waits for a southbound.
Photo Date:  1/9/2009  Upload Date: 8/25/2016 2:50:05 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2829(GP40-3)
Views:  647   Comments: 1
Working Cobb
Title:  Working Cobb
Description:  L 102, a-k-a the Siloam Dodger, switches the Cobb Vantress feed mill north of town.
Photo Date:  4/6/2009  Upload Date: 8/27/2016 3:05:46 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2016(GP38-2)
Views:  465   Comments: 2
Pulling down for a meet
Title:  Pulling down for a meet
Description:  Though theres already one going on here. I had seen the southbound grain train after I had dropped off recycling in Siloam, and decided to take chase. I caught up to him here in Watts, where he was holding the main for an impending northbound, but also because the dodger, L 102, was working the yard, using the siding for head room.
Photo Date:  10/17/2017  Upload Date: 10/22/2017 4:16:51 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4584(AC44CW) KCS 2911(GP40-2LW) KCS 2835(GP40-3)
Views:  466   Comments: 1
Pushing back
Title:  Pushing back
Description:  The L 102 dodger can spend a lot of tim` working at Pipelife, pulling emties and spotting loads. It was in the midst of one such move when I caught it as I approached Kenwood St crossing.
Photo Date:  11/10/2017  Upload Date: 12/9/2017 3:38:09 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom"Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2827(GP40-3) KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2911(GP40-2LW)
Views:  500   Comments: 0
Dodger in the pink
Title:  Dodger in the pink
Description:  I heard the radio say the dodger was going to Gentry to change ends, so I waited, figuring I could at least see it, if not get a photo. There was still enough light in the sky to work a silhouette. To my great delight, the sky had picked up a swath of pink from the now departed sun hitting a cloud, giving this unusual scene. Three units have 11 cars in tow.
Photo Date:  1/12/2018  Upload Date: 1/17/2018 5:34:54 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2850(GP40-3) KCS 2911(GP40-2LW) KCS 2835(GP40-3)
Views:  624   Comments: 2
Trash local
Title:  Trash local
Description:  I had to run trash, and caught the dodger as it rolled down the siding at Lincoln Av.
Photo Date:  11/18/2019  Upload Date: 11/21/2019 4:42:13 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2966(GP40-3) KCS 1913(GP38-2) KCS 2835(GP40-3)
Views:  443   Comments: 2
Getting harder to find
Title:  Getting harder to find
Description:  The dodger, L 102, rolls south behind a gray GP 38. Once a common scheme, now it seems almost all the four motor power has been repainted into the Belle scheme. It used to be I would look for a Belle unit leading. Now, the rarity is one in the old scheme. Southbound going under US 412 with 15 cars.
Photo Date:  12/2/2019  Upload Date: 12/5/2019 3:33:50 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2022(GP38-2) KCS 1913(GP38-2) KCS 2835(GP40-3)
Views:  484   Comments: 3
New arrival
Title:  New arrival
Description:  For the almost year and a half since the CP-KCS merger, the dodger power has been unchanged, using the same pool of GPs in has for the last several years. That changed recently when a CP GP 20ECO showed up, here leading as the Watts based dodger works at Pipelife in Sioam Springs.
Photo Date:  10/30/2024  Upload Date: 11/18/2024 5:53:29 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) CP 2313(GP20C-ECO) KCS 2974(GP40-3)
Views:  25   Comments: 1
Shoving back
Title:  Shoving back
Description:  The dodger pushes covered hoppers of plastic pellets into the plant.
Photo Date:  10/30/2024  Upload Date: 11/18/2024 5:54:34 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2974(GP40-3) CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  19   Comments: 1
Pulled up
Title:  Pulled up
Description:  The dodger is pulled up to Kenwood St, now under a cloud. He'll shortly go north with a dozen cars.
Photo Date:  10/30/2024  Upload Date: 11/18/2024 6:01:17 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2974(GP40-3) CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  29   Comments: 1
Dodger smoking it up
Title:  Dodger smoking it up
Description:  The dodger-officially L 102-is working hard climbing up out of Sleepy Hollow, its four motor power smoking hard with the effort.
Photo Date:  11/15/2024  Upload Date: 1/10/2025 6:40:09 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2974(GP40-3) CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  7   Comments: 0
Working hard
Title:  Working hard
Description:  Especially for only five cars. Davidson Rd.
Photo Date:  11/15/2024  Upload Date: 1/10/2025 6:43:22 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2974(GP40-3) CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  13   Comments: 0


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