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Photos by Mike Condren |
| This is the hump job pulling a string of cars from the Receiving Yard. Note the definite grade toward the hump, a rare downhill hump which once required brake-sleds made from steam locomotive tenders. These sleds were used with FM H1244s. As business increased H1244s were used in pairs on the hump. The Frisco then bought 2 SD38-2s with dynamics for this hump. The more normal hump in Memphis got 2 SD38-2s without dynamics. |
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| Jan had a committee meeting in downtown Tulsa. I dropped her off and headed for Cherokee Yard in West Tulsa. This trimmer set was my first action on March 31, 2012. |
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| Next up was this trimmer set in Cherokee Yard in Tulsa on Sept. 12, 2012. |
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| This switcher set is seen northbound as a westbound intermodal train from the Cherokee Sub heading for the Avard Sub. |
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| This trimmer set then couples to those tank cars which it brought to the yard a little earlier. |
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| The next movement was a trimmer set pulling out the north end and then backing into the yard. |
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| This transfer run is on its way to the yard at Union Depot for interchange to the Sand Spring and Union Pacific. |
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| A trimmer set of power heads out the west leg of the wye with a cut of car which caused the power heading to the engine terminal to stop and wait. |
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| The first train I get was the transfer returning from Owasso and the Watco yard there. |
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| This pair of locomotives is returning from switching the industries along the Avard Sub, including the refinery on March 31, 2012. |
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| These 4 SD40s are seen leaving the Cherokee classification yard. It then meets the westbound intermodal for the west coacst on Sept. 13, 2012. |
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| The next movement was this pair of units heading out behind the stack train on the Avard Sub to make a delivery on March 5, 2013. |
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| Our first trimmer set is now seen working a train in the classification yard. |
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| While the Log Beach to Memphis train is still passing, a set of trimmer engines pulls up on the parallel track. |
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| These trimmer units are working the yard out the southwest leg of the wye of Cherokee Yard in West Tulsa on July 16, 2011. |
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| Another transfer job was seen leaving Cherokee Yard. |
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| Then this trimmer appeared with a long string of cars before pushing them back into the yard. |
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| The next action was the local switcher making a delivery to the UP connection at Union Depot. We first see the switchman lining the crossover for the BNSF to enter the UP (former MKT) connection. |
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| This pair of locomotives is returning from switching the industries along the Avard Sub, including the refinery in Tulsa on March 31, 2012. |
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| This pair of locomotives is seen again without their cars. |
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