Arkansas & Missouri
50-class C420s
A&M 50 |
Ft. Smith/Van Buren transfer with C420s, #58 and #50, backing a cut of covered hoppers onto the Arkansas River bridge from the riverside A&M yard in Van Buren, AR 6/8/05. |
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Ft. Smith/Van Buren transfer with C420s #58 and #50 charges across the UP crossing with a cut of covered hoppers in Van Buren, AR 6/8/05. |
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Ft. Smith/Van Buren transfer with C420s #58 and #50 after dropping a cut of covered hoppers at Copp siding in Van Buren, AR 6/8/05. |
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A&M #50 is crossing Main Street on its way to the Arkola Sand and Gravel plant in Van Buren, 8/4/05. |
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A&M C420s #50 and #54 pass under the US 64-71 overpass as they enter the Arkola Sand and Gravel plant in Van Buren, 8/4/05. |
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A&M C420 #50 sits in the engine terminal at Springdale, 8/10/05. |
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A&M C420 #50 has just crossed Main Street in Van Buren heading for the Arkansas River bidge, 4/14/06. |
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The A&M passenger train has arrived in Van Buren. C420 #50 is seen running around its train before pushing the train down to the station to unload the passengers from Springdale so that they can shop. The train will then load the passengers for the round trip to Winslow. But before that can be done, the caboose has to be switched to the rear of the train. |
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The Winslow Turn is then seen at the north end of the Copp siding. The train is last seen passing under I40. |
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| While chasing the A&M transfer from the UP yard in Van Buren, AR to Ft. Smith, I discover this A&M switcher working the Gerber Baby Food spur. The engineer turns out to be long time friend, Andre Ming. The switcher returns to the main line, picks up its string of covered hoppers and heads for North Yard just ahead of the transfer. |
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A&M 52 |
Engines around headquarters in Springdale, AR. Oct. 24, 2009 |
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A&M 54 |
Upon paying my Mother's bill at Langston Drug, I hear an A&M train. Once on East Main I see a huge cloud of black smoke over the top of the new Frist Baptist Church and turn up N. 11th Street and catch the following A&M C420 #54 leads a sand drag from the sand plant in Van Buren to the siding at Copp, 5/20/06. |
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| A&M #54 is seen in the A&M yard in Van Buren switching with a former Pacific Great Eastern unit on Dec. 29, 2006. |
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| A&M #54 is seen switching South Yard in Ft. Smith, AR, May 22, 2007. |
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| The transfer from Van Buren to Ft. Smith follows the switcher up the hill, June 25, 2010. |
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| In Van Buren I catch the A&M's tranfers from the UP to the Ft. Smith Railroad passing under the new US 64-71 viaduct from the vantage point of the old US 64-71 viaduct, July 22, 2010. |  |
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| On a run from Tahlequah, OK to Alma, AR, we spotted the A&M transfer on the lift bridge in Van Buren. So, after dropping Jan at Dillard's in Ft. Smith, I headed toward the river and the Ft. Smith Railroad terminal where I caught the UP to Ft. Smith Railroad transfer. |
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| A&M #54 is seen sitting in front of the yard office in Springdale, AR, Sept. 11, 2011. |
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A&M 56 |
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A&M #56 trails #62 as they drag a string of sand cars up from the Arkola Sand and Gravel sand plant onto the Arkansas River bridge at Van Buren, 4/14/06. |
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On my way to the Main Street crossing in Van Buren, I noticed that the lift span was down. I raced toward the bridge but the train was already heading down grade into the A&M yard, 8/5/08. |
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| The A&M pulled down to the Main Street crossing and waited for instructions, 8/5/08. |
| A&M #56 and 58 are seen picking up a cut of cars in the UP Van Buren, AR yard before heading to Ft. Smith, AR. |
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| Next caught up with the A&M in Ft. Smith pulling the hill up from the Arkansas River bridge. | ||
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A&M 57 |
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| A&M C420 #57 is seen MUed to new slug #80 in their River Front yard in Van Buren, AR, 8/4/08. |
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| A&M #57 is seen with #80 and #56 in the UP Van Buren yard, 8/4/08. |
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The A&M consist is now seen on the approach to the Arkansas River bridge in Van Buren, 8/4/08. |
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Once across the bridge, the train switches from the A&M line to the former MP Ft. Smith Railroad line. Here we see the train pulling the grade up from the river, 8/4/08. |
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The A&M is seen crossing North 6th Street on the down grade into the yard, 8/4/08. |
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The A&M train on the Ft. Smith Railroad is seen here passing the Ft. Smith Railroad terminal and the Ft. Smith Visitors Center (the only Visitor Center in a former brothel). In the going away shot, we see the former Frisco station, 8/4/08. |
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| A couple of hours later, the A&M is seen making a run upgrade for the bridge. |
A&M 58 |
| A&M #58 trails #50 as they head north across the UP crossing and head for Copp, 7/7/05. |
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Ft. Smith/Van Buren transfer in the riverside A&M yard in Van Buren, AR 6/6/05. Two C420s, #58 and #50, are separated by T-6 #18. |
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| A&M C420 #58 and T6 #18 are seen picking up cars in the UP Van Buren yard. Note that the engineer is in the cab of the T6, March 11, 2010. |
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| A&M C420 #58 is seen switching the lead to the Port of Van Buren, AR, August 25, 2010. |
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| A&M #58 is seen working the lead their yard which extends out onto the Arkansas River bridge in Van Buren, AR, Feb. 16, 2011. |
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