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| Title: |
Tucked in |
| Description: |
The coal train has now completed its move onto the siding. The dispatcher will normal the switch, and the northbound will resume its spotty progress. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 5:47:50 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6351(ES44AC) BNSF 8151(ES44C4) BNSF 6101(ES44AC) |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Surprise!! |
| Description: |
We pulled down to the crossing here at Mt Olive Rd, just north of Dorsey siding-the one place he didnt have a meet-and settled in, wanting to get the shot here with the creek high. Theres a crossing about a half mile to the south that you can usually hear them blowing for, but today for some reason, it didnt happen, and we got surprised. Still a decent shot. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 5:50:57 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4701(ES44AC) KCS 4799(ES44AC) KCS 4784(ES44AC) CP 8750(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
207 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cleared out |
| Description: |
I dont know if the railroad did some clearing, or its just early enough in the season that the right of way isnt yet grown over, but it seems the trees are not encroaching on the shot as they did last year. The 4701 rolls north under the Ark 59 overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 5:55:38 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4701(ES44AC) KCS 4799(ES44AC) KCS 4784(ES44AC) CP 8750(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
214 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Flood zone |
| Description: |
I usually get the shot of a northbound crossing Butler Creek here at Noel, but this was as close as I was getting today. Kingshighway low water crossing is at high water, and blocked off. The only shot was going away, as we see here. This was the last time wed see this train, as hed meet two grain trains here. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 5:59:55 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4701(ES44AC) KCS 4799(ES44AC) KCS 4784(ES44AC) CP 8750(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
230 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Perfectly posed |
| Description: |
Not hearing any radio chatter, we went on up to Ginger Blue, planning to get the shot of the northbound here. When we got there, we found this southbound grain move sitting on the Elk River bridge. Couldnt have asked for a better spot. A pair of GEs(what else) leads over a rain swollen river. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:03:42 AM |
| Location: |
Ginger Blue, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9723(AC44CW) CP 9815(AC44CW) |
| Views: |
131 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Another surprise |
| Description: |
We went back to Noel, thinking wed get one more shot of the northbound, but he was playing with the power, and swe didnt stay, since it was now getting toward 1800, and dinner was calling. When we got down to Gravette, we came up beside this southbound grain move. He had not talked to the 4701 north when we were at Noel, and we werent able to see it through the trees, so we had no idea of its existence. We caught up at Decatur, here rolling past the stuffed and mounted F 7, a single unit leading 100 cars. There are DPUs, as well see shortly. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:08:42 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8791(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
217 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mails in!! |
| Description: |
The newly found southbound grainer rolls past the bank of mailboxes at Floyd Moore Rd south of Decatur. Trains have a hard pull coming south out of Decatur, and its not much of a challenge to get one downtown, and then again here, or in Gentry. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:10:47 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8791(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
92 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
There we are!! |
| Description: |
I knew a grain train wasnt going over the Heavener Sub with just a single unit, and I was right. Consecutively numbered SD 70ACes are spliced in 50 cars deep in the 100 car train. There will be one more unit on the rear, too. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:16:07 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4142(SD70ACe) KCS 4143(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
191 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Nose to nose |
| Description: |
The mid DPU was nose to nose, showing the consecutive numbers on the power. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:25:17 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4142(SD70ACe) KCS 4143(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
187 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dont see these much |
| Description: |
KCS got two dozen of these ET44s a few years back, but I dont see them here often. Maybe Im just not out at the right times, but its seems they arent here much. This one is pushing the grain train south. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:21:44 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 5004(ET44AC) |
| Views: |
174 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hustle pays |
| Description: |
So does making the lights. I made the light at Ark 12 in Gentry, and took off, getting the train here at Davidson Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:28:18 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8791(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
97 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A little more hustle. |
| Description: |
I took off as soon as I got the shot at Davidson Rd, able to get to Tahlequah St and the signals at the North Siloam Springs. The train splits the boards. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:31:56 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8791(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
107 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The mid DPU |
| Description: |
The mid train units pass Tahlequah St |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:33:22 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4142(SD70ACe) KCS 4143(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
189 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
And away |
| Description: |
The rear DPU rolls away toward downtown and Watts, passing one of the several water towers here in town. Time to head home for dinner now that the seven train show is over. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/2025 Upload Date: 5/29/2025 6:38:33 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 5004(ET44AC) |
| Views: |
176 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Unusual start |
| Description: |
Wed just come in from(where else??) Wal Mart, and while putting the stuff away, I heard a northbound working up the hill from Watts. When I got up into town, there was a northbound on the Lincoln St crossing, but also a coal train starting to move south, that snuck in on me. I was able to get his DPU, which had this surprise. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 5:51:25 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 774(C44-9W) BNSF 9066(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
120 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU away |
| Description: |
The entire DPU now pulls away from me. Ill head north, following 121 cars of the 261 train. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 5:52:27 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4296(ES44C4) BNSF 774(C44-9W) BNSF 9066(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
141 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Finally caught him |
| Description: |
After a spirited chase, I was able to get far enough ahead to beat him to this spot along Wolf Creek, north of Dorsey Siding, to catch a KCSM leader along the creek. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 5:54:03 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4562(AC44CW) CP 8153(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
222 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU midway down |
| Description: |
The single unit DPU was spliced in 73 cars deep in the 121 car train, here going away just south of Gravette. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 5:55:33 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4851(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
104 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Lotsa boxes |
| Description: |
Carload traffic is alive and well in the south, as we see by all the box cars on this 261 train passing the automatic at MP 204. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:00:46 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4562(AC44CW) CP 8153(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
200 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going under |
| Description: |
The 261 hits the curve as it rolls under my position on the Ark 59 overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:31:26 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4562(AC44CW) CP 8153(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
225 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the creek |
| Description: |
The 261 rolls along Butler Creek just south of Noel, the water still up over the road after recent rains. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:32:53 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4562(AC44CW) CP 8153(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
215 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed back, for now |
| Description: |
After the 261 passed, there was a southbound grain move, so I stuck around to chase it home. It was a good plan at the time, but my day was not complete, as Id soon discover. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:34:39 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
99 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the creek |
| Description: |
This shot gets harder to take every year, as the trees grow up along the creek. I need to get here earlier in the day, too, as the sun swings around far enough to put the nose of the leader in shadow this time of year. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:39:21 AM |
| Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
80 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Straight on |
| Description: |
The grain train now comes straight at me as I wait at the Dallas St crossing |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:41:14 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
97 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Holding it back |
| Description: |
The DPU rolls past, holding the train back as it goes down into the hollow along Wolf Creek and Dorsey siding. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:44:58 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 7040(SD70ACU) KCSM 4083(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
137 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old and new |
| Description: |
The new era meets the old as the CP power leads past the stuffed and mounted F 7. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/27/2025 6:48:47 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
105 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Under the puffy clouds |
| Description: |
The southbound grain train rolls south of Decatur under clouds that would be familiar to anyone who has seen a Kodachrome sky. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 7/2/2025 6:02:08 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
134 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU through the trees |
| Description: |
The DPU on the grain train, a pair of SD 70's, one each from Canada and Mexico, is framed by the trees along the side road next to the tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 7/2/2025 6:08:01 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4083(SD70ACe) CP 7040(SD70ACU) |
| Views: |
190 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going away |
| Description: |
The going away shot of the grain trains DPU. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 7/2/2025 6:09:26 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 7040(SD70ACU) KCSM 4083(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
196 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Unit trains meet |
| Description: |
The grain train rolls past a waiting empty AEPX train, seen from the Ark 12 overpass, its grain hoppers contrasting the open tops of the coal hoppers. |
| Photo Date: |
3/31/2024 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:24:06 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
84 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Closer |
| Description: |
The head end of the grain train rolls slowly to the signal at the south end of the siding, the empty northbound still fouling the switch. He was moving slowly, having now gotten the signal at the north end. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:33:30 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8618(AC44CW) CP 8794(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
96 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Almost a meet |
| Description: |
The AEPX train didnt get far enough up the siding for me to get the side by side power shot I was hoping for, but I got the second units on both consists. The out and back trip Id almost finished now took a turn, and I followed the empty coal train north. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:39:05 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8794(ES44AC) UP 7428(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
86 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
One more at Wolf Creek |
| Description: |
I took off, making the side trip to Wolf Creek just ahead of the train, catching it as the shadows now covered the waterway. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:42:25 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7763(ES44AC) CP 8756(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
116 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Full DPU |
| Description: |
I took off before getting a shot of the DPU on the coal train, knowing Id have to hustle to get here, and didnt get the shot at Gentry. Now I was able to get both units, rolling away. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:49:16 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8767(ES44AC) UP 7428(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
76 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Snaking along |
| Description: |
The empty coal train beat me to the Ark 59 overpass in Sulphur Springs, but I was able to get him approaching the Kingshighway crossing at Noel, snaking through the curves along Butler Creek |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:54:35 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7763(ES44AC) CP 8756(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
101 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting for a meet, and a surprise |
| Description: |
There was some chatter about a train to the north, at McElhany, and it seemed my coal train was going to be held here at Noel. When I got up into town, I found it sitting at the station, now city hall, with an unexpected companion, the Loram rail grinding train, which had been working on the line earlier in the week. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 6/30/2025 6:57:27 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7763(ES44AC) CP 8756(ES44AC) LMIX 3412(MoW Equipment) |
| Views: |
138 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Flying the flag |
| Description: |
The US and Missouri flags adjacent to the Noel city hall, the former KCS station, fly above the leader on the empty coal train, whose wings are flying on the nose of the engine. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 7/2/2025 5:21:29 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7763(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
152 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting |
| Description: |
There was chatter about a train at MdElhany, the next siding to the north, and a power swap. It seemed the coal train would be sitting a bit. It was getting toward twilight, and I had dinner waiting, so time to head home. Still, three trains in a short afternoon chase aint too shabby. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2025 Upload Date: 7/2/2025 5:40:32 AM |
| Location: |
Noel, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7763(ES44AC) CP 8756(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
164 Comments: 0 |
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