Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
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52 Years of Railroad Photography |
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Nov. 2, 2012
| I spent about an hour at Union Station in Little Rock, AR and mainly saw a track gang moving their equipment south. |
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| After the 2 ballast regulators got pass me, they decided to actually work a little. |
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| The only train that I saw was this one led by a NS unit which honked its horn in a continuing series of short blasts until it was out of sight. |
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| After the train passed the MOW parade resumed after one tie handler set off some ties. |
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Nov. 8, 2012
| Jan had a meeting of Presbyterian pastors in Grove, OK. I had never explored Grove for evidence of the former Frisco branch so I decided to help Jan by driving us to Grove. We took State Scenic 10 north out of Tahlequah along the Illinois River, a very popular tourist attraction in the summer. There are numerous resorts along the river bank that provide their guests with canoe rides on the river. One such resort had a former Rock Island caboose along side of the highway. After locating the former Frisco ROW in Grove, picking up Jan, visiting the local library and finding a framed picture of the Frisco station with train, we headed back toward Tahlequah. I shot this view of a former Rock Island caboose at one of the resorts. The closest RI tracks to this location were about 100 miles. The closest former railroad tracks to this location were about 10 miles away, a former Frisco branch which disappeared some 70 years ago. |
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Nov. 10, 2012
| Pastor Jan had a hospital visit in Tulsa so I volunteered to drive her. After the visit, we had lunch and then headed to the new Route 66 Memorial Park on the bank of the Arkansas River. I then dropped her ar the Tulsa Genealogy Center and drove to the nearby Expo Square where this steam locomotive is on display. This engine is from the Dierks Forrest operation near Broken Bow, OK and was their #207, a standard Baldwin 2-6-2 of 1917, common in logging service. Loco info courtesy of Marc Montray. |
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Nov. 17, 2012
| There is one bad thing about living in Tahlequah, OK. There is NO railroad action! I decided to drive 25 miles to the Wagoner Hot Spot for some action. The first train was a southbound loaded unit coal train coming off the former MKT and heading to the former MP. |
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| The next train was a northbound from the former MKT taking the connection to the former MP. |
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| My third train was another northbound on the former MKT heading to the former MP line. |
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| I had noticed that the flashers were flashing and the bells were ringing with the gates up and no train for the MP crossing by SW5th. I called the UP number of the relay box. In the first picture with the train stopped at the signals at the north end of the Cookson siding, you can see the light in the flasher on the north side of the track is lit. After it got its signal, the train approached at a very slow speed, under dynamic braking, obviously responding to my report. The gates came down at the normal distance. After the train passed the gates went up and the flashers and bells stopped. |
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| The right-of-way of the Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf (KO&G) once paralleled theformer MP track to near the MP station where the KO&G tracks curved to align with the former MKT track on its way north out of town. There is track under all of the debri and grass. Can still be original KO&G track? |
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