Western Railroad Discussion > Two Trips in Two Days, And Out Of Storage Locomotive

Yesterday I made a trip with another member up to Carona, KS on SKOL where there is a decent museum. The route we took leaving Tulsa, OK followed the BNSF Cherokee Sub up to Afton for the most part, then came back following the UP Coffeyville Sub.
Today, I had to take a trip out to Joplin Missouri not intended for railfanning but squeezed in time to wait about 30 minutes to see what showed up, and watched a grain train go by while my camera didn't wanna work, but the trip back this evening followed BNSF back from Afton to Tulsa on the same route as Saturday morning.

1) Eastbound Q passes local 466's power in the siding at

2) Q train keeps on rolling through Vinita, OK where BNSF Cherokee Sub crosses UP Cherokee Sub

3) Westbound freight rolls up to the west end of Afton where he will see a rock train (at the top of the hill now) that followed the Q out of Tulsa



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/12 19:10 by BNSF-6432.

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4&5) Rock train rolls by the freight and will crossover back in town to take the Afton sub

6) Freight recieves high green to at least Todd siding east of Vinita

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7) And finally, the beast taken out of storage and back on the road, green SD60M is the second unit of a westbound freight to Tulsa

8) At Carona, recently dilivered KCS steam engine sits at its new home with a CF7 in SKOL paint in the background

9) Missouri Pacific Carona depot

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10) If you go to the midwest or Kansas, its not a trip if you don't shoot and or see a dirty same ol' UP coal train, unless you are trying not to. Here leaving Parsons, KS

11) Or you can make that two dirty coal trains! This one behind the first by about ten miles pulls up for a crew change

12) Leftover halloween pumpkin heads light the town of Cherryvale at the SKOL depot

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13) Nighttime at Coffeyville yard, northbound freight leaves while a patched SP DPU waits for his crew change

14) Back at downtown Afton, a eastbound coal empty goes through and will crossover to take the Afton sub

15) On his block, an eastbound freight crosses over to avoid a stack train that will see green all the way to Tulsa besides UP interlockers without meets at least to Tiger siding, first siding east of Tulsa

BNSF-6432
PQM

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Good trips PQM very nice shots
Brian Stevens

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