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Not what youd have expected.... |
| Description: |
back in the 70s. Where once the MKT and Rock Island crossed, now its UP and short line Arkansas & Oklahoma, the successor on the segment of the Choctaw Route from Howe to McAlester, with an operation in OKC as well. At least the AOK unit looks almost authentic. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2008 Upload Date: 8/8/2016 4:28:43 AM |
| Location: |
McAlester, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
AOK 4061(B23-7) UP 7711(AC45CCTE) UP 4945(SD70M) |
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289 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP and the Rock |
| Description: |
A northbound on the ex MKT, a UP line since 1988, rolls past power sitting just west of the diamond on the ex Rock Choctaw Route. Go back 40 years, and it could be F units on both sides. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2008 Upload Date: 8/15/2016 4:18:00 AM |
| Location: |
McAlester, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
AOK 4061(B23-7) UP 7711(AC45CCTE) |
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203 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP under a big sky |
| Description: |
Not the Montana big sky, but Oklahoma. Two trains under some big clouds are on the ex MKT. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2008 Upload Date: 8/8/2016 3:53:57 AM |
| Location: |
McAlester, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7711(AC45CCTE) UP 4945(SD70M) NS 2613(SD70M) UP 8411(SD70ACe) |
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389 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Rock |
| Description: |
A northbound UP train on the ex MKT approaches the diamond for the one time Rock Island Choctaw Route, now the Arkansas & Oklahoma, seen in the foreground. AOK runs the line from here to a connection with the KCS at Howe. They subsequently acquired most of the right of way from here to Seminole and OKC. I'd love to see an MKT switcher squealing around that connecting track with a cut for the Rock, or a Rock GP 7 doing the same for the Katy. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2008 Upload Date: 8/8/2016 3:56:48 AM |
| Location: |
McAlester, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7711(AC45CCTE) UP 4945(SD70M) NS 2613(SD70M) UP 8411(SD70ACe) |
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383 Comments: 1 |
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