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DPU on the bridge |
| Description: |
After Baron, there arent any good photo spots til you get into Stilwell, but there is the bridge over Barren Fork Creek, a plate girder affair that connects to a through truss. Its better for a northbound, or a southbound with a DPU, which is what we have here. I wont beat him to the next spot, a county road crossing about 1.5 miles south, but the shot here is worth doing. The two unit DPU, a KCS and CP unit, rolls south, seen from adjacent US 59. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:46:59 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
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| Title: |
250-0 |
| Description: |
The wide angle shot here is of the train passing signal 250-0, which KCS relocated here from an earlier position a bit to the north a few years ago, which made it much more accessible for the C&S forces. They did a similar move a couple miles south with the signal at MP 252, which was moved from a position on an embankment, to the crossing just south of that milepost. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:39:47 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
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| Title: |
MP 250 |
| Description: |
A closer up look has the train rolling past MP 250, the white concrete post to the left of the train, and the "lift plow" sign as it approaches the crossing. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:31:42 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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| Title: |
Long view and a big tree |
| Description: |
There are several shots at Baron for different length lenses. This shot is a tele view, 250mm, that gives you the stretched out train and a view of a large trackside tree, which at this date has not started to green up. One of my great frustrations with the KCS is the lack of colorful trees. Almost no redbuds, and few Bradford pears for spring color. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:29:04 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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| Title: |
Dodging the shadows |
| Description: |
The grainer dodges the clouds as it passes the barn and hay bales north of Westville. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:22:29 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Scenic,Action |
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| Title: |
Fenced in |
| Description: |
The grain train rolls past a pasture, behind a barbed wire fence meant to keep the cows under control. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:19:12 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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| Title: |
S curve |
| Description: |
The location of the S curve where I shot northbound 181 a little while earlier has a different look with a southbound, the pair of CP GEs leading 102 cars through the 30 MPH curve along US 59. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:14:22 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Scenic,Action |
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| Title: |
Rolling |
| Description: |
After getting the shot of 181 on the Illinois River, I beat it south, and was able to catch the grain train south of MP 238, rolling into the left hand curve there. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 6:08:09 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Scenic,Action |
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| Title: |
Out watching |
| Description: |
The southbound grain train I heards from my house is waiting on the main at Watts, the crew out in position to inspect the incoming 181. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2024 Upload Date: 4/25/2024 5:58:10 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
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