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| Title: |
Out watching |
| Description: |
The southbound grain train I heard from my house is waiting on the main at Watts, the crew out in position to inspect the incoming 181. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 5:58:10 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
37 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rolling |
| Description: |
After getting the shot of 181 on the Illinois River, I beat it south, and was able to catch the grain train south of MP 238, rolling into the left hand curve there. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:08:09 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
31 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
S curve |
| Description: |
The location of the S curve where I shot northbound 181 a little while earlier has a different look with a southbound, the pair of CP GEs leading 102 cars through the 30 MPH curve along US 59. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:14:22 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
31 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Fenced in |
| Description: |
The grain train rolls past a pasture, behind a barbed wire fence meant to keep the cows under control. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:19:12 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
25 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Dodging the shadows |
| Description: |
The grainer dodges the clouds as it passes the barn and hay bales north of Westville. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:22:29 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
32 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long view and a big tree |
| Description: |
There are several shots at Baron for different length lenses. This shot is a tele view, 250mm, that gives you the stretched out train and a view of a large trackside tree, which at this date has not started to green up. One of my great frustrations with the KCS is the lack of colorful trees. Almost no redbuds, and few Bradford pears for spring color. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:29:04 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
27 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 250 |
| Description: |
A closer up look has the train rolling past MP 250, the white concrete post to the left of the train, and the "lift plow" sign as it approaches the crossing. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:31:42 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
33 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
250-0 |
| Description: |
The wide angle shot here is of the train passing signal 250-0, which KCS relocated here from an earlier position a bit to the north a few years ago, which made it much more accessible for the C&S forces. They did a similar move a couple miles south with the signal at MP 252, which was moved from a position on an embankment, to the crossing just south of that milepost. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:39:47 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
26 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
County barn |
| Description: |
There used to be a body shop here. Adair county picked up the property when the shop folded, and now uses it for a maintenance base for road equipment. The tracks here are on a short steep grade, coming out of a speed restricted curve that slows them considerably. Its kind of a straight on shot, but an easy one. The slow speed also makes getting ahead of the train for a shot at the signals at CP North Stilwell easy, or passing the station, about 1.5 mile south. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:51:40 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
30 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Slow roll |
| Description: |
The grain train was to meet a northbound move here at Stilwell, and is doing a slow roll down to the signal as the northbound rolls up the siding behind it. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:13:55 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
32 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Side by each |
| Description: |
The lite power move is overshadowed by the grain train as it rolls away north. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:35:25 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4735(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
21 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
From the bridge |
| Description: |
The grain train was held up long enough waiting for the dispatcher to clear the signal that I had time to beat it up to the US 59 overpass a half mile south for this tele view of the train picking up speed as he rolled for Cave Springs and south. Id follow the lite power back to Watts. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:37:37 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Signal |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
26 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Into the shade |
| Description: |
The wider angle view shows the southbound rolling into the curve, and into the shadow of the US 59 overpass, its 102 cars stretched out behind. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:39:42 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
26 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Out to roll it by |
| Description: |
The crew on the grain train is on the ground to watch the 181 roll past, looking for anything that might be awry. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/24/2024 6:50:47 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4532(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
28 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The meet |
| Description: |
The 181 starts up the siding, passing the head end of the grainer as the grain trains crew observes. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/24/2024 6:54:37 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8877(ES44AC) CP 8044(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4532(AC44CW) KCSM 4559(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
29 Comments: 2 |
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