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6/12/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Giving it a push
Title:  Giving it a push
Description:  There was a mid train DPU 85 platforms deep, seen here on the bridge, the engine dwarfed by the huge viaduct.
Photo Date:  10/23/2024  Upload Date: 11/3/2024 5:22:07 AM
Location:  Kismet, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2576(ET44AH)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
Stack DPU
Title:  Stack DPU
Description:  The mid train DPU on the stack. Its not needed so much here, as the gradient is gentle for the most part, but on the old SP part of the route, west of Tucumcari, the line tops out well over 6000 feet elevation.
Photo Date:  10/23/2024  Upload Date: 11/3/2024 5:28:59 AM
Location:  Plains, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2576(ET44AH)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
Greeley Sub late in the day
Title:  Greeley Sub late in the day
Description:  My wife consults with a couple of doctors at National Jewish Health in Denver, for which we do an annual trip there for follow ups. We stayed in Brighton this trip. As we were coming back from dinner, I had just pulled into the parking lot, and heard a horn-the UP Greeley Sub follows US 85, the main route through town. She bailed, and I gave chase, catching him here, just outside Henderson, in low afternoon light, three units and a good sized train of stacks and TOFC, a vanishing sight these days.
Photo Date:  4/8/2025  Upload Date: 4/16/2025 6:06:55 AM
Location:  Henderson, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7324(AC4460CW) UP 6937(AC4460CW) UP 2600(ET44AH)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
High powered
Title:  High powered
Description:  The DPU on this empty AEPX coal train is high powered, and low emissions. Seen pushing north at Davidson Rd on what started as a trip to the recycle station
Photo Date:  1/31/2022  Upload Date: 2/2/2022 5:34:14 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2601(ET44AH)
Views:  245   Comments: 1
Waiting....
Title:  Waiting....
Description:  Northbound AEPX empty train waits short of the crossing in Noel. A southbound grain train will be along in about five minutes. Not too bad this time.
Photo Date:  1/5/2021  Upload Date: 1/9/2021 4:34:16 AM
Location:  Noel, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2615(ET44AH)
Views:  255   Comments: 1
Easing by
Title:  Easing by
Description:  Northbound AEPX empty train eases past the station at Noel to a stop short of the crossing. It will meet a southbound grain train here.
Photo Date:  1/5/2021  Upload Date: 1/9/2021 4:36:33 AM
Location:  Noel, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2615(ET44AH)
Views:  259   Comments: 1
Last light
Title:  Last light
Description:  As I was heading home from chasing the TXUX train to Noel, I saw this empty AEPX train at Decatur, and thought I could catch him before the light went at Gravette. I did, just barely.
Photo Date:  11/3/2020  Upload Date: 11/5/2020 5:39:07 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2637(ET44AH) UP 5707(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  277   Comments: 1
Roadside
Title:  Roadside
Description:  One of the better places to catch a train when on a chase, and also one of the last places to lose the light in the evening is here along MO 59 just south of Anderson. The northbound H train rolls toward KC with four Belles and a new UP unit.
Photo Date:  2/12/2019  Upload Date: 2/17/2019 5:28:32 AM
Location:  Anderson, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4052(SD70ACe) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4799(ES44AC) KCS 4811(ES44AC) UP 2675(ET44AH)
Views:  702   Comments: 0
Cant fight city hall
Title:  Cant fight city hall
Description:  But you can run trains past it. Northbound H train rolls past the former KCS station, now city hall, at Anderson.
Photo Date:  2/12/2019  Upload Date: 2/17/2019 5:31:50 AM
Location:  Anderson, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4052(SD70ACe) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4799(ES44AC) KCS 4811(ES44AC) UP 2675(ET44AH)
Views:  700   Comments: 0
Detected
Title:  Detected
Description:  The northbound H train rolls up to the defect detector just south of the county road EE bridge.
Photo Date:  2/12/2019  Upload Date: 2/17/2019 5:43:45 AM
Location:  Lanagan, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4052(SD70ACe) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4799(ES44AC) KCS 4811(ES44AC) UP 2675(ET44AH)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
Head end
Title:  Head end
Description:  The head end power of the grain train sits at the west end of the siding. Shot from the shoulder of I 40. Dont try this on the road!!
Photo Date:  12/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/4/2024 6:03:27 AM
Location:  Los Tanos, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5391(AC45CCTE) UP 2694(ET44AH)
Views:  187   Comments: 1
Appetizer
Title:  Appetizer
Description:  We were headed up to Gentry for an early dinner-a local place there does a crab special on Thursday and Friday-and I was doing my usual run up to Davidson Rd for a signal check and quick run out to Ark 59. As we crossed the tracks south of the Cobb feed mill, three lights came around the corner. I pulled off quickly, and got this 126 car AEPX coal train.
Photo Date:  8/1/2024  Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:33:38 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8710(SD70ACe) UP 8077(AC45CCTE) UP 2739(ET44AH)
Views:  251   Comments: 1


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