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Viewing Album:  Out and back
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:9/29/2016 - 9/29/2016
Album Info:One of the more productive ways to get train photos, for me, anyway, is a chase. If I'm lucky, I'll get one going away from home, then catch something else coming back. Most of the time, it works best if I catch a northbound and follow it to either Noel or McElhany near Neosho, though chasing south to Stilwell and back is also a workable plan. Living in Siloam Springs, I can go either way. This album is the result of those chases.
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Away!
Title:  Away!
Description:  The Q train rolls though the S curve at Chewie Rd, going away, and heading for Westville as the light fades.
Photo Date:  1/14/2023  Upload Date: 1/28/2023 5:51:34 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4803(ES44AC) KCS 4139(SD70ACe)
Views:  97   Comments: 1
Rolling south
Title:  Rolling south
Description:  The Q trains DPU is rolling away, trailing the train as it heads to Mexico.
Photo Date:  1/14/2023  Upload Date: 1/28/2023 6:04:14 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4869(ES44AC)
Views:  74   Comments: 1
Long ride to chase it down
Title:  Long ride to chase it down
Description:  I heard the horn for a southbound from the house, and got out fairly quickly, but the slowpokes on the way down to Westville sank the chase. The train was on the US 62 crossing in Westville when I got there. I finally caught up down near MP 252 south of Baron, to find this merger mix of CP and KCS units leading a 105 car oil train.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 4:59:51 AM
Location:  Baron, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8631(AC44CW) KCS 4809(ES44AC)
Views:  95   Comments: 1
Rolling to a stop
Title:  Rolling to a stop
Description:  The oil train rolls to a stop just north of the County Barn crossing. It will wait here for a northbound H train that is slowly making its way up from Cave Springs.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:10:48 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8631(AC44CW) KCS 4809(ES44AC)
Views:  68   Comments: 1
H train at last
Title:  H train at last
Description:  After a roughly 30 minute wait, the H SHKC shows, passing the station with all of 38 cars. Hell meet the oil train at the north end of the siding.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:12:04 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4099(SD70ACe) KCS 4016(SD70ACe) KCSM 4541(AC44CW)
Views:  102   Comments: 1
Oil train south
Title:  Oil train south
Description:  The H train safely tucked into the siding, the oil train now rolls south, passing the station as it picks up speed. The CP leader is one more scheme I have caught coming past this historic building
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:14:52 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8631(AC44CW) KCS 4809(ES44AC)
Views:  73   Comments: 1
Getting a push
Title:  Getting a push
Description:  The DPU on the oil train rolls south, trailing the 105 cars of crude. The KCS/UP mix seems to be common on these trains.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:16:23 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8683(SD70ACe) CP 8790(ES44AC)
Views:  89   Comments: 1
Returning north
Title:  Returning north
Description:  I had hoped to chase the oil train down to Bunch, there are a couple of shots I want to do there, but the sun was now getting low, and I had a northbound to head home with, so I turned my attention to the H train, which we see here on the bridge over Baron Fork Creek, just barely catching the sun.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:18:27 AM
Location:  Baron, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4099(SD70ACe) KCS 4016(SD70ACe) KCSM 4541(AC44CW)
Views:  101   Comments: 1
Dinner
Title:  Dinner
Description:  The H train passes the pasture in Westville, the cows indifferent to the disruption in the peace and quite of a Tuesday evening. Perhaps they are thinking of their future as someones dinner??
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:20:34 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  63   Comments: 1
Hay
Title:  Hay
Description:  The northbound passes the bales of hay, neatly lined up along the corrugated steel barn next to the tracks in this pastoral scene.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:22:01 AM
Location:  Westville, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  65   Comments: 1
Restricting
Title:  Restricting
Description:  The H train was arriving shortly, and will find the signal at South Watts to be red over flashing red. Heres the red/red
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 5:47:53 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  34   Comments: 1
Flashing dark
Title:  Flashing dark
Description:  The alternate display on the home signal is red/dark, which we see here.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 6:04:20 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  22   Comments: 1
Here he comes
Title:  Here he comes
Description:  The H train rolls around the big curve at MP 237, approaching the signal and the yard. Hell take the siding per signal indication
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 6:06:25 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  74   Comments: 1
Easing up
Title:  Easing up
Description:  The H train slowly eases toward the signal, now red/dark as the restricting aspect plays out. The switch is lined for the siding.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 6:11:20 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  56   Comments: 1
A little closer
Title:  A little closer
Description:  The H train is now taking the red/red as it slowly nears the switch.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 6:14:04 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  61   Comments: 1
Knocked down
Title:  Knocked down
Description:  The H train has passed the signal, now red over red as he takes the siding. I quit the chase here-the light was going, and I had to get home-but at least with the end of February, the light stays longer, and I get more of the "back" part of the chase in before its too dark to shoot pictures.
Photo Date:  2/28/2023  Upload Date: 3/4/2023 6:18:10 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  59   Comments: 1
Rolling north at the end of town
Title:  Rolling north at the end of town
Description:  I heard a horn while doing some work around the house, and took off. My quarry turned out to be this northbound empty grain train led by a KCSM GE, seen approaching Davidson Rd
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:29:43 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  70   Comments: 1
Passing the automatic
Title:  Passing the automatic
Description:  And, at the same time, the detector. A little "axle math" tells me the train has 96 cars.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:32:22 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  67   Comments: 2
Stretched out
Title:  Stretched out
Description:  The train of covered hoppers returning north is stretched into the curve between Davidson Rd and Country Club Rd.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:34:47 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  24   Comments: 1
Dark side
Title:  Dark side
Description:  Normally I shoot this from the lit side, which has a good view in a tele shot of the train streteched out into the next curve south of town. This time I decided to go for the nose lit, but dark side of the train. It would be more effective if there wasnt so much clutter, as I could work the station/museum into the photo without a pole in front of it. This does have the advantage of allowing me a quick getaway, as I dont have to let the whole train pass before resuming the chase, though hed meet a southbound at Dorsey, just to the north, and Id get him anyway.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:39:17 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  63   Comments: 1
Out of the meet
Title:  Out of the meet
Description:  The grain train has met a southbound Texas Gulf Utilities train at Dorsey, and is now rolling north along Wolf Creek, and is into the climb to Gravette. Ill hustle out of here to catch the coal train, which will happen just south of Decatur.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:42:33 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  82   Comments: 3
Rolling away
Title:  Rolling away
Description:  Going away shot of the power on the northbound grain train.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:44:09 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  68   Comments: 1
Over the crest
Title:  Over the crest
Description:  The coal train the empty grain move met at Dorsey is now at MP 219, six miles south. I didn't get out of Dorsey til the grainer passed, and was still able to catch this train, which is typically the case.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 6:36:11 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  42   Comments: 2
Climbing out
Title:  Climbing out
Description:  The coal train is pulling to the top of the grade coming out of the Flint Creek valley, its power working hard as it approaches Davidson Rd. The detector just to the south will tell me it has 124 loaded cars.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:50:39 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  47   Comments: 1
Mixing them up
Title:  Mixing them up
Description:  The DPU on the coal train is a mix of home road and foreign power; usually there are a pair of KCS units added to the 2x1 these trains arrive at Kansas City with.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:52:54 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  98   Comments: 1
DPU and an automatic
Title:  DPU and an automatic
Description:  Back where I started, the DPU with an NS unit passes automatic 226-5 as it makes its way south. Time to head home after a quick out and back to Decatur, an efficient chase of two trains.
Photo Date:  5/1/2023  Upload Date: 5/4/2023 5:55:20 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  87   Comments: 2
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: 
Views:  116   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: 
Views:  117   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: 
Views:  127   Comments: 3
Southbound
Title:  Southbound
Description:  The oil train met this southbound merchandiser. I now felt like the standing on a hot bridge was not such a waste of time after all. Power is a now common CP/KCS set.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:10:14 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  62   Comments: 1
Tall sky
Title:  Tall sky
Description:  A different composition put a lot of sky over the southbound.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:16:03 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  60   Comments: 1
Front and back
Title:  Front and back
Description:  The head end of the southbound passes the rear of the oil train. The oil trains usually run with power on both ends. For some reason, this one has all four units up front. Hazardous material trains apparently dont need buffers any more, and Ive seen a number of these trains without them this year.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:21:58 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  48   Comments: 1
Almost back
Title:  Almost back
Description:  Now that I had spent almost 90 minutes on a 12 mile chase, I was back at Davidson Rd to shoot the southbound reaching the summit of the grade up from Sleepy Hollow. I beat him by about 3 minutes, since he had to take the south Gentry siding switch at 15 MPH. Not much lead, but enough to get set up before he showed.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:26:34 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  69   Comments: 1
Signal
Title:  Signal
Description:  The southbound passes the automatic at MP 226.5, knocking it down. In the distance is the relay case for the defect detector at MP 226.7.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:37:00 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  85   Comments: 1
Mid train help
Title:  Mid train help
Description:  The southbound train had 93 cars of mixed freight, with this mid train DPU 59 cars deep.
Photo Date:  8/1/2023  Upload Date: 8/3/2023 6:28:55 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  49   Comments: 0

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