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| Title: |
Down the valley |
| Description: |
The 262 rolls away from me, down toward Marble Falls and Sallisaw. |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/2025 Upload Date: 1/26/2025 5:52:25 AM |
| Location: |
Bunch, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8827(ES44AC) |
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31 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First catch |
| Description: |
The snow event of mid January was not to be the last for the season. Another storm dropped about 6" on northwest Arkansas in mid February. Then it got cold; the next couple days the high didnt get out of the teens. I moved here to get away from this!! Northbound empty grain rolls into Gravette in stinging cold. The weather would get the best of the train a few miles north in Goodman Mo, and kill what would have been an epic day with a southbound. |
| Photo Date: |
2/20/2025 Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:25:27 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW) |
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8 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Snowy straight on |
| Description: |
The empty grain train rolls along the tangent approaching the Ark 59 overpass, its hundred cars stretched out behind |
| Photo Date: |
2/20/2025 Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:28:55 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW) |
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9 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Into the curve |
| Description: |
The grain move rolls into the S curve that follows Butler Creek under the Ark 59 overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
2/20/2025 Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:34:24 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW) |
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10 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Butlers Bluff |
| Description: |
The snow highlights the rocks above the tracks, making them more prominent than they appear without the white blanket, as the train rolls along Butler Creek.This will be the last shot. Ill catch up to him again near Goodman MO, where brake issues will strand him on the single track. Theres a southbound at McElhany that now cant proceed, which would have been a fabulous chase in the snow and bright sun. Sadly, not to be. Some days, the railfan gods frown upon you. |
| Photo Date: |
2/20/2025 Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:41:23 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4086(SD70ACe) CP 8513(AC44CW) |
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11 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Snowy tracks |
| Description: |
We had things to do the next day, and I didnt get out til afternoon. It started out sunny, then went downhill as the clouds moved in, but no trains. I camped out at the north end of Watts, hoping for a southbound to come along. It was a long wait, and then it was the 262 that arrived and worked the yard. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2025 Upload Date: 2/28/2025 6:52:26 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Track |
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7 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the yard |
| Description: |
The 262 with a dirty AC 44 and SD 70 work the yards at Watts. Hell pick up 14 here, and leave town with 121 cars |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2025 Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:38:03 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4595(AC44CW) KCSM 4071(SD70ACe) |
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8 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU |
| Description: |
I ran down to the other end of the yard to see if the 262 had a DPU. Turned out he did, one of the original SD 70ACes. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2025 Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:40:08 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4010(SD70ACe) |
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6 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Wider view |
| Description: |
Pulling up a little got me a more broadside shot of the trailing unit here at MP 237 |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2025 Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:42:29 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4010(SD70ACe) |
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4 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the bridge |
| Description: |
The gloom couldnt take the chill out of the air, and the wider view of the Illinois River waterscape couldnt ease the gloom. The 181, which had passed the working 261, rolls north into the climb up to Siloam Springs. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2025 Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:48:06 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8029(AC4400CWM) CP 7003(SD70ACU) |
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9 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Next days 181 |
| Description: |
Saturday was much brighter, though the trains were still hiding on us. We caught the 181 on the Illinois River as it made its way north. Despite the cold, the snow is gradually disappearing. |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/2025 Upload Date: 3/1/2025 6:52:00 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM) |
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14 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Davidson Rd |
| Description: |
The 181 has made it up the hill from Watts with a sizeable train of 65 stack platforms and 22 auto racks, probably the only reason I beat him through Siloam Springs-that and I made most of the lights. The snow is making its last stand. Tomorrow will get into the 50s, and there wont much left |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/2025 Upload Date: 3/2/2025 6:22:18 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM) |
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6 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the crossing |
| Description: |
The 181s power crosses Davidson Rd, still some snow in evidence across the tracks in the field. |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/2025 Upload Date: 3/2/2025 6:28:24 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM) |
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10 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just barely |
| Description: |
The light was getting low, and I knew I had a shot here at Y City Rd, if the train kept moving, It did, and I got this last shot with some snow in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/2025 Upload Date: 3/2/2025 6:31:31 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8608(AC44CW) CP 8111(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
8 Comments: 0 |
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