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5/8/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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Mixed color
Title:  Mixed color
Description:  Not only the power, but the trees also. This was turning out to be one of the better years for color, perhaps because of the lack of rain most of the summer. A northbound empty American Electric Power train rolls north at Davidson Rd.
Photo Date:  11/1/2022  Upload Date: 11/8/2022 5:39:32 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6168(AC4400CWM) KCS 4127(SD70ACe)
Views:  51   Comments: 1
Cresting
Title:  Cresting
Description:  The northbound empty AEPX train is cresting the grade at Davidson Rd, and is starting the drop into Sleepy Hollow and then climb up into Gentry.
Photo Date:  11/1/2022  Upload Date: 11/8/2022 5:42:45 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6168(AC4400CWM) KCS 4127(SD70ACe)
Views:  48   Comments: 1
About time
Title:  About time
Description:  The empty AEPX train, having met the southbound Q train, finally passes my perch at Wolf Creek.
Photo Date:  11/1/2022  Upload Date: 11/8/2022 5:55:08 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6168(AC4400CWM) KCS 4127(SD70ACe)
Views:  78   Comments: 1
Rolling away
Title:  Rolling away
Description:  Once again, early evening arrives, and I hear a horn off to the south. I make a run for Jefferson St, to catch this empty grain train going north behind a pair of CP GEs, which we see here going away, passing the water tower as they head for Kansas City.
Photo Date:  6/11/2022  Upload Date: 6/22/2022 5:17:33 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8005(AC4400CWM) CP 8604(AC44CW)
Views:  90   Comments: 1
Another low angle lit shot
Title:  Another low angle lit shot
Description:  Another evening with a northbound brought me out to get the shot of a northbound at Jefferson St as the evening wore on. This time it was an empty grain train behind CP GEs, catching the low sun of the early evening.
Photo Date:  6/11/2022  Upload Date: 6/22/2022 5:23:48 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8005(AC4400CWM) CP 8604(AC44CW)
Views:  93   Comments: 1
Oil and grass
Title:  Oil and grass
Description:  A 112 car southbound oil train rolls past the pasture south of the Illinois River bathed in late afternoon sun.
Photo Date:  10/7/2018  Upload Date: 11/8/2018 4:24:30 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8012(AC4400CWM) KCS 3967(SD70MAC) KCS 4041(SD70ACe)
Views:  262   Comments: 2
The northbound
Title:  The northbound
Description:  The dispatcher said the grain train was to meet a northbound at Stilwell. I was hoping for an actual train, so was sorta disappointed when it turned out to be just four lite engines, now in the siding as they are about to meet the southbound. Oh well....though one of them did turn out to be notable.
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:29:28 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) KCS 4575(AC44CW) KCSM 4735(ES44AC)
Views:  21   Comments: 1
Lite power by the station
Title:  Lite power by the station
Description:  The lite power move rolls up the siding as the grain train approaches on the main, holding back so he wont have to come to a complete stop at the home signal.
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:31:33 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) KCS 4575(AC44CW)
Views:  31   Comments: 1
A little closer
Title:  A little closer
Description:  The rear end of the lite power continues up the siding, as the grainer gets closer
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:33:29 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4735(ES44AC) KCS 4575(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8877(ES44AC)
Views:  28   Comments: 1
Dwarfed
Title:  Dwarfed
Description:  The four unit move is dwarfed by the landscape as it rolls north past the hay bales north of Westville. Someone needs to do something with that tree!!
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:43:38 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) KCS 4575(AC44CW) KCSM 4735(ES44AC)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
Swinging on through
Title:  Swinging on through
Description:  The lite power rolls through the S curve at Chewie Rd.
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 4:55:21 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) KCS 4575(AC44CW) KCSM 4735(ES44AC)
Views:  29   Comments: 1
On Ballard Creek
Title:  On Ballard Creek
Description:  The lite power crosses the Ballard Creek bridge in bright late day sun.
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 5:09:39 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) KCS 4575(AC44CW) KCSM 4735(ES44AC)
Views:  28   Comments: 1
Going away
Title:  Going away
Description:  The lite power move rolls away toward South Watts, which it will pass unimpeded.
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 5:17:40 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4735(ES44AC) KCS 4575(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) CP 8629(AC44CW)
Views:  26   Comments: 1
Quick grab
Title:  Quick grab
Description:  The four units make a brief appearance on the Illinois River bridge as they head north, a couple of relatively clean Golden Rodents leading the way.
Photo Date:  4/11/2024  Upload Date: 4/26/2024 5:26:33 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8629(AC44CW) CP 8013(AC4400CWM) KCS 4575(AC44CW) KCSM 4735(ES44AC)
Views:  31   Comments: 1
Straggler
Title:  Straggler
Description:  After shooting the 181 at Noel, I headed back home. The Heritage unit app said there was a coal train with a gray KCSM GE, but the report had it in Poteau several hours earlier, and I figured it either got past me, or it was stuck in Watts for a new crew To my surprise, I saw the signal at 219-2 showed clear, and I waited the five or so minutes for it to show, here at Y City Rd, just after the sun dipped below the trees.
Photo Date:  3/10/2024  Upload Date: 3/14/2024 5:33:33 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 6670(AC44CW) CP 8019(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4517(AC44CW) UP 5559(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  23   Comments: 1
Down in the hole
Title:  Down in the hole
Description:  We beat him to Mt Olive Rd, north of Dorsey siding, and got a shot of the head end, a fully North American consist if ever there was one. Four units and 133 cars roll north.
Photo Date:  1/30/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2024 5:59:46 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4712(ES44AC) BNSF 5612(AC44CW) CP 8025(AC4400CWM) CP 8160(AC4400CWM)
Views:  31   Comments: 1
Short trip, long wait
Title:  Short trip, long wait
Description:  I heard a horn as we came back from lunch, and took off into town, expecting to chase a northbound. That guess was correct; what I didnt know was there was a southbound coal train holding the main. By the time I got it together, I had missed both trains at Siloam. I didnt want to be out too long, so went to Gentry to get the northbound. I got ahead, and climbed the embankment to the Ark 12 overpass, and waited...and waited...and waited. I figure either he was holding south of town to meet a southbound-KCS does this so not to block crossings-or he was picking up DPUs from the Flint Creek Spur. I was about to give up on the effort after about 30 minutes in 95 degrees, when I heard a horn to the south, and shortly after saw a column of smoke as the train pulled away from the spur, about a mile to the south. Here he is, four original units, and three picked up off the spur, with 115 empty oil cans.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 5:54:22 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8043(AC4400CWM) CP 9728(AC44CW) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4113(SD70ACe) CP 8707(ES44AC) KCSM 4540(AC44CW) KCS 4804(ES44AC)
Views:  49   Comments: 3
Seven units
Title:  Seven units
Description:  A wider view of the head end shows the seven units leading the oil train, four original, and three DPUs picked up off he Flint Creek Spur to the SWEPCO plant.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:00:29 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8043(AC4400CWM) CP 9728(AC44CW) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4113(SD70ACe) CP 8707(ES44AC) KCSM 4540(AC44CW) KCS 4804(ES44AC)
Views:  64   Comments: 2
I was right after all
Title:  I was right after all
Description:  I had thought they might be holding back on a meet as one option for the long delay of the northbound oil trains arrival. Turned out I was right on that count as well. A southbound, possibly 262?? rolls down the siding as the oil train runs north on the main.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:05:21 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8043(AC4400CWM) CP 9728(AC44CW) KCSM 4556(AC44CW) KCS 4113(SD70ACe) CP 8707(ES44AC) KCSM 4540(AC44CW) KCS 4804(ES44AC) CP 8621(AC44CW) KCS 4600(AC44CW)
Views:  66   Comments: 3
Out watching
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
Rolling
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:  32   Comments: 1
S curve
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
Fenced in
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:  26   Comments: 1
Dodging the shadows
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
Long view and a big tree
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
MP 250
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
250-0
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:  27   Comments: 1
County barn
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
Slow roll
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
Side by each
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
From the bridge
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:  27   Comments: 1
Into the shade
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
Out to roll it by
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:  29   Comments: 1
The meet
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
Wet day at Dalby
Title:  Wet day at Dalby
Description:  My friend and fellow RRPA contributor David Sommer was in town for a visit on his way to the west coast, and was hoping for some good KCS photos. The prize was a southbound road train with a KCS leader in good sun. So of course, it rained most of the first day he was here, and we saw only this northbound. An 89 car H train rolls past the signal at the south end of Dalby.
Photo Date:  2/11/2019  Upload Date: 2/17/2019 4:43:23 AM
Location:  Dalby, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3787(ET44C4) CP 8045(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4062(SD70ACe)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
Rolling north
Title:  Rolling north
Description:  The northbound H train has the board, and is rolling toward Kansas City in the gloom of a February day. An almost new ET44AH leads a foreign visitor and 89 cars.
Photo Date:  2/11/2019  Upload Date: 2/21/2019 3:18:30 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3787(ET44C4) CP 8045(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4062(SD70ACe)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
High water
Title:  High water
Description:  The northbound H train rolls through a steady rain, passing a low water crossing south of Noel where the water isnt so low.
Photo Date:  2/11/2019  Upload Date: 2/17/2019 5:05:59 AM
Location:  Noel, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3787(ET44C4) CP 8045(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4062(SD70ACe)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
Meeting the dodger
Title:  Meeting the dodger
Description:  The northbound H train rolls past the dodger, which is working Pipelife Jetstream, and is behind the road train. We had hoped the H train would be slow enough so that the dodger, which was backing cars into the pipe plant, would be side by side. Not to be. Meet shots are always a challenge, and timing is everything. Oh well...
Photo Date:  2/11/2019  Upload Date: 2/21/2019 4:01:43 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3787(ET44C4) CP 8045(AC4400CWM) KCSM 4062(SD70ACe)
Views:  245   Comments: 1
Why the grainer was waiting
Title:  Why the grainer was waiting
Description:  Soon a northbound appeared, with what has now become a typical mix of CP and KCS power. This train had 36 stack platforms and six articulated auto racks. In the old days-two months ago-this would have been the Q train. Now its the MMX-181, headed for Chicago. The grain train has cut the train at the crossing here where Ark 59B crosses the tracks, north of he Little Debbie plant. Hell be there a while.
Photo Date:  6/18/2023  Upload Date: 6/22/2023 6:36:41 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4186(SD70ACe) CP 8045(AC4400CWM)
Views:  148   Comments: 1
North in the snow
Title:  North in the snow
Description:  Somehow I think Ive seen this show before...oh, yeah, I lived in upstate NY when CP ran the D&H. Lots of red diesels then, though not many GEs, just hordes of SD 40s and a few Alcos. This pair of GE rebuilds leads 114 cars of empty oil tanks north, just south of Decatur at Floyd Moore Rd.
Photo Date:  3/3/2022  Upload Date: 3/22/2022 6:11:49 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8048(AC4400CWM)
Views:  81   Comments: 2
By the detector
Title:  By the detector
Description:  The empty oil train rolls past the defect detector just south of Davidson Rd. This is a useful feature, as the axle count makes it unnecessary to count cars.
Photo Date:  3/3/2022  Upload Date: 3/19/2022 5:19:00 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8049(AC4400CWM)
Views:  98   Comments: 2
Knocked down
Title:  Knocked down
Description:  The oil train is on the move, and has just knocked down the signal at North Siloam Springs.
Photo Date:  3/3/2022  Upload Date: 3/19/2022 5:20:20 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8049(AC4400CWM)
Views:  87   Comments: 1
Waiting...
Title:  Waiting...
Description:  I heard a horn from the house that indicated a northbound train. I got out and headed toward town. As I got near Lake Frances Rd, I saw the red of a CP unit, and realized he was holding short of the crossing. This usually indicates a meet. I took the short side trip to shoot what turned out to be an empty oil train with a clean GE leading.
Photo Date:  3/3/2022  Upload Date: 3/19/2022 5:23:16 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8049(AC4400CWM)
Views:  70   Comments: 2
Inside the curve
Title:  Inside the curve
Description:  Northbounds are in a left hand curve as they approach Lake Frances Drive, and since the sun was weak, and the train was stopped, I took the opportunity to get this shot that would have been backlit on a sunny day.
Photo Date:  3/3/2022  Upload Date: 3/19/2022 5:56:07 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8049(AC4400CWM)
Views:  64   Comments: 1
Easing up
Title:  Easing up
Description:  The empty oil train that was waiting at Lake Frances Rd is now meeting the southbound grain train, easing up to the north end of the siding.
Photo Date:  3/11/2022  Upload Date: 3/18/2022 5:51:36 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8049(AC4400CWM)
Views:  79   Comments: 2
Passing the signal
Title:  Passing the signal
Description:  The empty oil train passes the signal just south of Davidson Rd, in an angle thats almost impossible to do on a sunny day.
Photo Date:  3/11/2022  Upload Date: 3/18/2022 5:56:28 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8177(AC4400CWM) CP 8049(AC4400CWM)
Views:  95   Comments: 1
Bringing up the rear
Title:  Bringing up the rear
Description:  The DPU rolls past on the short bridge.
Photo Date:  11/1/2023  Upload Date: 11/3/2023 5:49:19 AM
Location:  Bunch, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8792(ES44AC) CP 8059(AC4400CWM)
Views:  50   Comments: 1
Through the trees
Title:  Through the trees
Description:  The train was moving right along, and by the time I got caught up, I was able to get this shot of the DPU through the trees along US 59 just north of Chewie Rd
Photo Date:  11/1/2023  Upload Date: 11/3/2023 4:50:35 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8059(AC4400CWM) CP 8792(ES44AC)
Views:  41   Comments: 1
DPUs too
Title:  DPUs too
Description:  I waited out the DPU on the grain train, a pair of CP GEs trailing the 102 cars of corn headed for Mexico.
Photo Date:  11/1/2023  Upload Date: 11/3/2023 5:06:43 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8059(AC4400CWM) CP 8792(ES44AC)
Views:  68   Comments: 1
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  Wed been out for a joyride on Fathers Day, rolling into Gentry to find the Main St crossing blocked by a grain train. I went up onto the Ark 12 overpass to get a couple of shots, first this one of the train stretched through town.
Photo Date:  6/18/2023  Upload Date: 6/22/2023 6:17:12 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8065(AC4400CWM) KCS 4010(SD70ACe)
Views:  123   Comments: 3


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