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Right moment |
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Were headed to Georgia in a few days for a wedding, so it was time to prep the RV for the trip. One of the things to be done is sanitize the water system, which involves a bleach mixture that is run through the system, then flushed. I take the RV out for a 30 minute or so ride around town to get the bleach in all the nooks and crannies. While I was out, this northbound H train showed up with 114 cars. I caught him at Davidson Rd under some towering clouds. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/2023 Upload Date: 6/6/2023 6:25:32 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8126(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4552(AC44CW) KCSM 4513(AC44CW) |
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| Title: |
Lucky catch |
| Description: |
We were headed to lunch at the Wooden Spoon in Gentry, and saw this train stretched through the south siding switch there. A quick run up to the head end yielded this shot of an empty grain move with seven units and 100 covered hoppers. More and more, northbound grain and coal trains are being used to ferry excess power back north, resulting in these monster power consists, where in the past, after enough diesels were accumulated at Heavener and Shreveport, a lite power move would run. This undoubtedly makes for fewer crew starts, but doesn't make for good photos most of the time-all power, very little, if any, train. One of the units, CP 9781, the last of the set, went south the previous day on a grain train. |
| Photo Date: |
1/28/2025 Upload Date: 1/31/2025 6:32:15 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8949(ES44AC) KCSM 4552(AC44CW) BNSF 9348(SD70ACe) CP 8764(ES44AC) CP 8707(ES44AC) UP 6731(AC44CW) CP 9781(AC44CW) |
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