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| Title: |
South end meet |
| Description: |
The grain train rolls past the DPU on the empty coal train at the south end of Stilwell siding. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/29/2025 5:40:35 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7420(AC45CCTE) UP 6052(AC44CWCTE) CP 9367(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
25 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coal DPU |
| Description: |
The DPU on the coal train was a relatively clean CP unit |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/29/2025 5:45:24 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9367(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
33 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
And away we go |
| Description: |
The show is over, at least for me. Time to head home for dinner, now that its past 1800. The DPU on the coal train pulls away past the water tower. Hell meet another one at Gentry. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/30/2025 5:54:47 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9367(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
27 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Unit tanks |
| Description: |
Unit trains make for a great long lens shot, and this one is no exception, stretched out in ` long row behind CP power, approaching the US 59 overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 5:52:08 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9375(ES44AC) NS 7546(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
375 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Staying with it |
| Description: |
A quick run to Cave Springs was in order, hoping for a meet khere. It was not to be, and it was a close race, but I stopped at Caseys for a quick break. The oil train rolls down the main, passing the home signals at the south end of the siding.' |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 5:58:02 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9375(ES44AC) NS 7546(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
354 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Big curve |
| Description: |
The line south of Cave Springs rolls along next to the road for about two miles down to the small community of Bunch, a grade crossing, a few houses and a couple of churches. About 1/2 mile before reaching the crossing at MP 271, the line rolls around a sweeping curve. The oil train comes around the curve, passing me in sweet light. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 6:05:28 AM |
| Location: |
Bunch, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9375(ES44AC) NS 7546(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
364 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Close up |
| Description: |
A close up shot of the lead power on the oil train. This is the second one Ive caught with NS power trailing. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 6:11:09 AM |
| Location: |
Bunch, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9375(ES44AC) NS 7546(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
399 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Going away |
| Description: |
The head end of the oil train approaches the crossing at Bunch. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 6:20:23 AM |
| Location: |
Bunch, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9375(ES44AC) NS 7546(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
374 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Dangerous game |
| Description: |
This guy just walked across the tracks in front of the 120 car train without |o much as a glance toward it, and did not seem in a hurry to get across the tracks. Another Darwin candidate. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2023 Upload Date: 2/19/2023 5:45:41 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9375(ES44AC) NS 7546(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
343 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Approach |
| Description: |
The signal at North Gentry is showing approach, as the northbound, another 261, has just cleared the south end of the siding. The dispatcher will normal the switch in a moment, and the coal train will roll on south. The northbound has a surprise, but I wont be able to get a shot. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 5:46:05 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9379(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
142 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The northbound |
| Description: |
The 261 train sitting in the siding, awaiting the coal train. You cant see it from here, but when I checked the train, visible through the trees from Ark 59, I found it had CP 6644, the WW II vets unit, third in a consist of four. I was thinking Id shoot the coal train one more time, then get this train up at Y City Rd in Decatur, but it was not to be, as the 261 stayed put, and I had to get home for dinner. It will be back some time. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 5:49:17 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9379(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
140 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Meeting the northbound |
| Description: |
The coal train rolls away from me, about to pass the 261 in the siding. I went back up to Y City Rd, about three miles north, where there would be a good sun angle, hoping to get the WW II unit, but they were holding the 261. After waiting almost two hours for the coal train, it didnt look promising, and I had to get home, Next time through... |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 6:15:43 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9158(SD70ACe) BNSF 6174(ES44AC) CP 9379(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
185 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
261 and a DPU |
| Description: |
The DPU on the coal train passes the head end of the 261. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 6:26:22 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9379(ES44AC) NS 4282(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
215 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Waiting on a meet |
| Description: |
Northbound empty oil train waits south of the Ark 59B crossing in Gentry for a southbound grain move. Hell pull up to the signal once the grainer is in the picture. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 4:52:27 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
202 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Starting up |
| Description: |
The southbound has called the signal at MP 219, and the oil train starts to move toward the signal in anticipation of the meet. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:11:24 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
210 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Pulling away |
| Description: |
The empty oil train slowly rolls toward the end of the siding, a BNSF unit trailing the CP leader, along with a buffer car. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:15:24 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
206 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Oil |
| Description: |
A look down the train shows the effect of a single type of car in a tele view of this trains 114 cars as it waits for a southbound |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 4:55:21 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
213 Comments: 1 |
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