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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
6/5/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
Model:GE ES44ACBuilt As:CP 8939 (ES44AC)
Serial Number:60693Order No:1980
Frame Number:Built:9/2011
Notes:Lord Strathcona's Horse.
Other locos with this serial:  CP 8939(ES44AC)
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This is what I get....
Title:  This is what I get....
Description:  For not getting out of the car. I pulled up on adjacent US 59 to get a shot, stopping in the traffic lane for this view of a southbound grain train, and the power for Mondays dodger. Took the shot through the windshield, which might explain the fuzziness!!
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 6:12:08 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC) KCS 2851(GP40-3)
Views:  233   Comments: 2
Across the road
Title:  Across the road
Description:  Im almost always chasing here, and typically take this shot from the southbound side of US 59. The train wasnt moving that fast, so I came around and shot him from the northbound side, a slightly different angle.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/9/2024 6:03:02 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC) CP 9804(AC44CW)
Views:  205   Comments: 1
A little farther along
Title:  A little farther along
Description:  The train has progressed into the S curve here, now coming around to the south with 119 cars
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/9/2024 6:11:29 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC) CP 9804(AC44CW)
Views:  178   Comments: 1
Crew change
Title:  Crew change
Description:  Like most of these events, it started with a horn I heard from the house. I cant beat a train here by going through town, so the process is to take Ark 59 south, then cut over to Westville OK on US 62, and start north, looking for the train. I can usually catch it a couple miles north of Westville. Today, no train. Heres why: they canned it at Watts. The train was 119 cars, long enough that it would block the crossing at the north end of the yard, so they cut the train to accommodate. The train waited only maybe 30 minutes, but too long to leave the crossing blocked. After this crew got on, they had to put the train back together-maybe a half dozen cars and a two unit DPU. It took time. Meanwhile, the 261 was working at the north end.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 6:17:54 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC) CP 9804(AC44CW)
Views:  199   Comments: 1
Interesting leader
Title:  Interesting leader
Description:  The lead unit on the grain train had an emblem honoring the Strathconas Regiment. This is one of at least two so adorned; the other that I know of is CP 7030, which was here not long ago,
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 6:29:01 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC)
Views:  173   Comments: 1
Close up
Title:  Close up
Description:  A close up look at the Strathconas coat of arms on CP 8939
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 6:30:31 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC)
Views:  174   Comments: 0
Underway at last
Title:  Underway at last
Description:  The southbound grain move finally get rolling from Watts after a crew change and reconnecting his train. Now at MP 237, in golden late day sun.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/9/2024 5:49:16 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8939(ES44AC) CP 9804(AC44CW)
Views:  222   Comments: 1


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