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By:Zach Pumphery
Dates:11/1/2005 - 11/30/2005
Album Info:Lots of trains on the Hoxie and Jonesboro Subs. in and around Poplar Bluff, Malden, Bernie, and Dexter, MO, Amtrak, depots, cabooses, rare power, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train, a trip to NRE-Mount Vernon, IL, two days in a row worth of trips to Dupo, IL, and much, much more!
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Southbound Manifest
Title:  Southbound Manifest
Description:  With an ex-Conrail Leader!!! We caught this just in time at the Memorial Park Cemetery.
Photo Date:  11/4/2005  Upload Date: 11/22/2005 11:31:27 PM
Location:  Malden, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  NS 6737(SD60I) NS 8950(C40-9W)
Views:  619   Comments: 1
Southbound UP Manifest Train
Title:  Southbound UP Manifest Train
Description:  With all EMD power the a southbound rolls past the yard. I sure miss seeing these leading trains.
Photo Date:  11/4/2005  Upload Date: 11/22/2005 11:31:32 PM
Location:  Malden, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 2855(SD40-2T) CEFX 3183(SD40-2) UP 3365(SD40-2)
Views:  706   Comments: 0
Leaving Town
Title:  Leaving Town
Description:  The train leaves out of town with prime movers howling. This was a cool consist in that it was all elephant style.
Photo Date:  11/4/2005  Upload Date: 11/22/2005 11:31:43 PM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 4064(SD70M) NS 6643(SD60) UP 3912(SD70M) UP 9840(SD50) UP 3792(SD70M)
Views:  978   Comments: 0
Highball!
Title:  Highball!
Description:  Now the train is finally leaving at 8:03 A.M.
Photo Date:  11/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/23/2005 7:59:53 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  AMTK 4(P42DC)
Views:  1066   Comments: 0
Northbound Intermodal
Title:  Northbound Intermodal
Description:  This train came through a few minutes after Amtrak (during breakfast, Mickey D's!).
Photo Date:  11/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/23/2005 7:59:56 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 3833(SD70M) UP 9412(C41-8W) UP 9145(C40-8)
Views:  610   Comments: 0
Northbound Manifest
Title:  Northbound Manifest
Description:  Trains were parked on the main and siding at Ives.
Photo Date:  11/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/23/2005 8:00:02 PM
Location:  Ives, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 9401(C40-8W) UP 9273(C40-8)
Views:  439   Comments: 0
UP 2486 - EMD SD60M
Title:  UP 2486 - EMD SD60M
Description:  These were fine looking engines in any scheme, but the wings sure did them a favor. I only wish the UP was still allowed to use the red sill stripes.
Photo Date:  11/5/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2012 10:35:48 PM
Location:  Junland, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 2486(SD60M)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Southbound UP Manifest Train
Title:  Southbound UP Manifest Train
Description:  Sittinc at the crew change at North Dexter ready to go south. I remember heading to Malden uo eat Chinese with my dad and grandpa after this, and the back doors of the restaurant were open, and this train absolutely sounded like it was coming through the room when it passed behind the building.
Photo Date:  11/6/2005  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:19:51 AM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 2002(SD70M) UP 5472(AC45CCTE)
Views:  532   Comments: 1
Something's Wrong Here
Title:  Something's Wrong Here
Description:  It eveQ made the car slant, lol.
Photo Date:  11/9/2005  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:42:57 AM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  489   Comments: 1
Sittin' Sideways
Title:  Sittin' Sideways
Description:  Yup, something's wrong, lol.
Photo Date:  11/9/2005  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:42:59 AM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  390   Comments: 0
Shifted Load
Title:  Shifted Load
Description:  This intermodal car was set out because the load in the trailer shifted. Dad and I couldn't figure what was wrong then it snapped.
Photo Date:  11/9/2005  Upload Date: 6/30/2004 3:42:56 AM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  492   Comments: 0
Stopped Northbound Manifest
Title:  Stopped Northbound Manifest
Description:  I saw Dennis Glaze again, I asked him "Weren't we just here!?". We were there 13 hours ago. This train had been stopped nearly 2 hours.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:31 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 9829(C44-9W) UP 9628(C44-9W) UP 5354(AC45CCTE)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
MP Caboose
Title:  MP Caboose
Description:  This old caboose had a flat car kicked at it in the yard, it telescoped, took the cupola off, it was plated over, and served as a crew shelter for many years in the yard about a quarter mile from here. McCoy cleared a bunch of junk out and unhid the caboose so I got some shots of it. For a before photo visit: http://trainweb.org/dbrr/cabsavedhtml/MP13517.html .
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:37 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  308   Comments: 0
New Data
Title:  New Data
Description:  They put on a new data patch before it was wrecked, it was in near freshly painted condition upon being wrecked.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:39 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  220   Comments: 0
Plated Over
Title:  Plated Over
Description:  They didn't repaint after they plated over the damaged area.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:39 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
B End
Title:  B End
Description:  Here's the end didn't have the cupola on it.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:40 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  192   Comments: 0
A End
Title:  A End
Description:  This end had a receptacle for electrical power inside while it was used as a building in the yard.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:41 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Graffiti
Title:  Graffiti
Description:  This used to look worse, they ruined the decal, which WAS in really good shape. Maybe it will wear away one of these days.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:42 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  200   Comments: 0
MP 13517
Title:  MP 13517
Description:  The old number is still plenty visible on the old "bump" where the cupola was.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:42 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  150   Comments: 0
Graffiti
Title:  Graffiti
Description:  Like I said, it was worse, but has faded since 2001 when they did this.
Photo Date:  11/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/27/2005 8:45:43 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  225   Comments: 1
MP Hopper
Title:  MP Hopper
Description:  These old cylindrical hoppers are some of the neatest cars I've ever seen, and no, I didn't notice the number at the time.
Photo Date:  11/19/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 4:28:09 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  735   Comments: 0
Dennis Glaze
Title:  Dennis Glaze
Description:  The track inspector heads toward the front of the train, he had rode down from Bismarck in the hy-rail, he rode back on this Amtrak train. Dennis heads over to assist a passenger as the train comes to a stop.
Photo Date:  11/19/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 4:28:16 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  AMTK 73(P42DC)
Views:  648   Comments: 0
Stopped Train
Title:  Stopped Train
Description:  We see the train stopped in Poplar Bluff.
Photo Date:  11/19/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 4:28:19 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  AMTK 73(P42DC)
Views:  761   Comments: 0
Southbound UP Local Train
Title:  Southbound UP Local Train
Description:  Passing the MP Depot coming back into Poplar Bluff is UP Train LSV52 19 with an Ex-Mo-Pac GP38-2 on the point. This unit went back to the lessor since then.
Photo Date:  11/19/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2012 11:02:55 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 333(GP38-2)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
Southbound Ore Train
Title:  Southbound Ore Train
Description:  This train came off the BNSF at Minntac, MN, it was heading towards Eagle Pass, TX, it was symboled UMNEGJ 18 while on the UP.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:08:43 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4488(C44-9W) BNSF 5084(C44-9W)
Views:  497   Comments: 0
Surprise On the Back End!
Title:  Surprise On the Back End!
Description:  This is one of the last things I was expecting to see on the back end in DPU Mode! I was hoping for a GEVO or a unit with a swoosh, but this old EMD pushing beat it!
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:08:46 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4445(C44-9W) FURX 3029(SD40-2)
Views:  679   Comments: 2
Northbound Manifest
Title:  Northbound Manifest
Description:  Here we see another train with good foreign power in the lead taking off.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:08:48 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  CN 2580(C44-9W) NS 8753(C40-8)
Views:  656   Comments: 0
Southbound Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
Title:  Southbound Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
Description:  My grandpa signed out of school at 10:05 A.M. from Malden High School. The train was symboled SSLME 21, it went through Dupo, IL at 5:25, it passed Gorham at 8:11, Simbco at 9:02, Delta, MO at 11:38, arrived at North Dexter at 13:02, left at 13:38, got to Bernie at 13:52, arrived into Malden at 14:04, departed at 14:48, arrived into Memphis, TN at 20:42, was interchanged with the NS and arrived into Jacksonville, FL on November 23 on the CSX, and got to its Tampa, FL Winter Home Base on the 24th. The train was 5,623 tons, 5,301 feet, and had 58 loads and 0 empties. They rocketed south here at about 65 mph and blew the horn 4 times at me. The entire train is in view. The train was the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 134th Edition Blue Unit Circus Train. See all the cars in order at: http://www.trainweb.org/semorails/circus.html .
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:25:00 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  CSX 8357(SD40-2) UP 4425(SD70M)
Views:  1883   Comments: 2
Heading South
Title:  Heading South
Description:  I zoomed in as the train rolled south at about 75 mph, we were outdoing him by about 5 mph. This is across the a picked cotton field north of the chicken houses.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:25:05 PM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 4425(SD70M) CSX 8357(SD40-2)
Views:  698   Comments: 0
Southbound UP Special Passenger Train
Title:  Southbound UP Special Passenger Train
Description:  The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train is UP Train SSLME 21 and is highballing south of Bernie down the UP Jonesbor Sub.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 8/28/2009 7:11:34 PM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4425(SD70M) CSX 8357(SD40-2)
Views:  571   Comments: 0
Private Property
Title:  Private Property
Description:  This dates back to when the Cotton Belt Depot was here, now UP doesn't care if you run around where the foundation is.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:25:07 PM
Location:  Malden, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Views:  167   Comments: 0
Southbound UP Intermodal Train
Title:  Southbound UP Intermodal Train
Description:  UP Train ZYCMQB 21 leaves the crew change at Dexter with no more than 2,000 feet of train. This guy left on a clear and had her up to track speed in no time. Even my grandpa, whom I was with at the time thought he sped up pretty fast.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2012 10:44:51 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9785(C44-9W)
Views:  524   Comments: 1
Southbound UP Intermodal Train
Title:  Southbound UP Intermodal Train
Description:  Back when the SD70Ms were still relatively clean and not faded, a hot trailer train streaks out of Dexter down the UP Jonesboro Sub. My grandpa signed me out of high school that day so we could go shoot the Ringling Brothers Circus Train.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2012 10:35:41 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 5116(SD70M) UP 3717(SD40-2)
Views:  332   Comments: 1
Ex-UP Geeps
Title:  Ex-UP Geeps
Description:  Built as CNW units.
Photo Date:  11/24/2005  Upload Date: 2/9/2006 9:03:02 PM
Location:  Mount Vernon, IL
Author:  Zach Pumpherx
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Locomotives:  FURX 2929(GP50) MRLX 317(F40PHR)
Views:  877   Comments: 2
Ex-Amtrak F40PHR
Title:  Ex-Amtrak F40PHR
Description:  Good lookin' old unit, bnd CHECK OUT THE WHITE ONE IN THE BACKGROUND, AN EX-AMTRAK F69PH-AC!!! These units that were thought to be cut up are still around, these testbeds racked up thousands of revenue miles for Amtrak after being built in 1989 as the first EMD units powered by AC Traction Motors, they returned to EMD La Grange, IL in 1991, but reappdared briefly in 1993 to pilot a train of German-built Inter-City Express passenger equipment on a nationwide demonstration tour.
Photo Date:  11/24/2005  Upload Date: 2/9/2006 9:03:09 PM
Location:  Mount Vernon, IL
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  FURX 2929(GP50) MRLX 317(F40PHR) NREX 450(F69PH-AC)
Views:  4443   Comments: 0
F69PH-AC Demonstrator
Title:  F69PH-AC Demonstrator
Description:  These units that!were thought to be cut up are still around, these testbeds racked up thousands of revenue miles for Amtrak after being built in 1989 as the first EMD units powered bx AC Traction Motors, they returned to EMD La Grange, IL in 1991, but reappeared briefly in 1993 to pilot a train of German-built Inter-City Express passenger equipmdnt on a nationwide demonstration tour.
Photo Date:  11/24/2005  Upload Date: 2/9/2006 9:03:10 PM
Location:  Mount Vernon, IL
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NREX 451(F69PH-AC)
Views:  3352   Comments: 0
BN Geep
Title:  BN Geep
Description:  This old GP10 was sitting in the midst of it all.
Photo Date:  11/24/2005  Upload Date: 1/11/2009 11:35:48 PM
Location:  Mount Vernon, IL
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  BN 1403(GP10)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
UP Yard Job Train
Title:  UP Yard Job Train
Description:  A trio of units roll over the hump at Dupo late in the evening.
Photo Date:  11/26/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2012 10:51:29 PM
Location:  Dupo, IL
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LLPX 2228(GP38-2) LLPX 2340(GP38-2)
Views:  401   Comments: 0
Southbound UP Manifest Train
Title:  Southbound UP Manifest Train
Description:  This was train QASLI 27 with a newly painted SD40-2 leading the way south. Pat Scott and I were out on this cold day for a few trains. This was one of the first repaints I'd seen with the yellow sill stripe. Something that I'm still not used to.
Photo Date:  11/27/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2012 10:41:44 PM
Location:  Dupo, IL
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3139(SD40-2R) UP 7915(SD40-2)
Views:  273   Comments: 0


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