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| Title: |
Grays and grain |
| Description: |
A 75 car southbound grain train rolls into Watts behind a pair of gray units. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/2007 Upload Date: 7/11/2016 3:34:26 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4618(AC44CW) KCS 4586(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
665 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS north Stilwell |
| Description: |
KCS northbound empty grain north of Stqlwell OK |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 9:12:01 PM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
511 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Northbound empty grain |
| Description: |
Northbound grain crosses Illinois River at Watts OK |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 9:13:17 PM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
547 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
More than quarter horses |
| Description: |
A northbound grain train rolls past the driveway for Shockeys Farm, its sign proclaiming their featured stock. The KCS has something somewhat larger than quarter horses to handle their task. Sadly, this sign was taken down during the US 59 widening project, which upgraded the road to four lanes here. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/4/2018 4:18:54 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
377 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
After the meet |
| Description: |
A northbound empty grain train gets underway from Stilwell after meeting a southbound AEPX coal train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/4/2018 4:21:27 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
383 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
On the water |
| Description: |
Empty grain train has cleared Watts, and is crossing the Illinois River, about to dig into the grade to Siloam Springs. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/4/2018 4:31:45 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
383 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Cherokee panorama |
| Description: |
The spread of eastern Oklahoma, Cherokee territory, is seen in this view of a northbound grain train just north of Westville. View is from what was then two lane US 59, which is going up a hill at this point. The new, four lane US 59 would open in 2016 about midway up the frame, roughly where the barbed wire fence is, relegating the road Im on to local access for some farms and a church. Its a much better vantage point now without the traffic. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/4/2018 4:39:09 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
364 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bulkers |
| Description: |
Two bulk commodity trains, a northbound empty grain train behind a pair of gray GEs, and a southbound AEPX coal train with the Belle DPU, meet at Stilwell. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2010 Upload Date: 1/4/2018 4:46:50 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4576(AC44CW) KCS 4114(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
473 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Splash of sun |
| Description: |
The grain train rolls out of the shadows for a brief moment south of Baron. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/2017 Upload Date: 10/22/2017 4:39:45 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4584(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
344 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coop-erating |
| Description: |
Southbound grain train slowly passes the Farmers Coop at the north end of Stilwell. Theres a northbound empty coal train that has just cleared into the siding, and the grainer is just getting the signal at N Stilwell. The power is a pair of originally gray AC44CWs, freshly repainted into the Belle scheme. The GEs have been lagging in getting repainted, so it was good to see these in the new scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/2017 Upload Date: 10/18/2017 3:14:19 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4584(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
303 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Meeting the DPU |
| Description: |
The grain train rolls past the Stilwell station, meeting the coal trains DPU as it hustles past. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/2017 Upload Date: 10/22/2017 4:45:23 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4584(AC44CW) BNSF 9375(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
265 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
High above |
| Description: |
When US 59 was widened from two lanes to four here, this hillside was blasted away to allow for the new southbound lanes. It opened up this shot, since the hill was now easily accessible. A 114 car southbound grain train is passing along US 59 in this panoramic view. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/2017 Upload Date: 10/18/2017 3:45:22 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4584(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
215 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Meeting a northbound |
| Description: |
The grain train meets the empty TXUX train at CP North Stilwell. The single unit is uncommon on the head an empty train, though there are two more on the rear. Practice is for BNSF to send the coal trains from Wyoming in a 2x1 configuration, with KCS adding DPU power on the rear at Pittsburg. This train had the KCS power cut off at Heavener, but the BNSF power was not rearranged once the train was empty. The two KCS units on the grain train are fresh repaints. Thats US 59 in the foreground. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/2017 Upload Date: 10/18/2017 3:18:00 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 4584(AC44CW) BNSF 9248(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
379 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
589 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Going away |
| Description: |
The DPU on the Q train rolls away from me through the shadows and fall color at Cave Springs. Ill follow the empty coal train north. |
| Photo Date: |
10/31/2022 Upload Date: 11/7/2022 4:32:32 AM |
| Location: |
Cave Springs, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
151 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lone tree |
| Description: |
And a lone DPU, this one trailing the southbound Q train, seen across the pasture land north of Westville, pushing hard on a covered hopper and a string of articulated auto racks as it passes a single, bare tree. Todays train has 88 freight and five of the racks. |
| Photo Date: |
10/31/2022 Upload Date: 11/7/2022 4:40:36 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4586(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
135 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rolling past |
| Description: |
After getting the shot of the leader going past the signals, I ran to get it meeting the power on the Q train. He was a bit faster than me, and I didnt get the power passing power shot I wanted. This is still a pretty good action shot, though, of the Q train conductor giving the northbound a roll by. |
| Photo Date: |
11/28/2022 Upload Date: 12/3/2022 5:54:26 AM |
| Location: |
Cave Springs, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4794(ES44AC) KCS 4849(ES44AC) KCS 4586(AC44CW) KCS 5005(ET44AC) KCS 4037(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
216 Comments: 1 |
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