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| Title: |
Like always, it starts with something else |
| Description: |
We were coming back from lunch, when we saw the 181 train stretched out down to the US 412 overpass, waiting in the siding. We had to drop some mail at the post office, then head home. He was still there 15 minutes later when we came back. My wife said I could drop her home and take off. I dropped her off, grabbed a bag of recycling, and away I went. I got this shot of the head end waiting south of Lincoln St after dropping the bottles. The detector went off right after, and the chase was on. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 5:52:48 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4807(ES44AC) |
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14 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The meet |
| Description: |
I beat it to the US 412 overpass in time to catch the southbound 262 train as it made its way down the main with a CP/KCS duo. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 5:57:29 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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6 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Wide view and a big sky |
| Description: |
A wider view of the meet shows the Pro Pak warehouse, once a facility of Siloam fixture Allen Canning |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:02:46 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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9 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Off the bridge |
| Description: |
I knew Id have a race to beat the 262 to Watts, but the railfan gods were with me, and I made all the lights, beating him with enough time to set up in the driveway of an old roadhouse on US 59 for this shot of the train coming off the Illinois River bridge |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:06:45 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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9 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU on the water |
| Description: |
The DPU on the 262 train was maybe 25 cars from the rear of the 121 car train, seen here under a big sky as it crosses the Illinois River. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:11:41 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9721(AC44CW) |
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14 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pumping air |
| Description: |
The 262 has done its work at Watts and is now pumping air, the head end at Ballard Creek just south of Watts yard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:15:23 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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10 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Wide and clouds |
| Description: |
A towering sky greets the 262 as it passes a field north of Westville. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:21:19 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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9 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Under a tall sky |
| Description: |
The clouds, which had been heavy earlier in the day, now are breaking up, and making a spectacular backdrop, here with the power on the 262. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:27:08 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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10 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dinked |
| Description: |
Despite the prevalent cloud cover, I got dinked only once, here at Baron. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:28:05 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8205(AC4400CWM) KCS 4012(SD70ACe) |
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11 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going to meet a northbound |
| Description: |
There was chatter on the radio about a northbound, so I went down to the station to see if I could get it on the way into town. It turned out to be an empty AEPX coal train behind a Belle and a UP unit, here approaching the Stilwell station. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/2025 Upload Date: 4/28/2025 6:31:55 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4848(ES44AC) UP 7010(CM44AC) |
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10 Comments: 0 |
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