Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
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52 Years of Railroad Photography |
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Mike's Main Railroad Web Site
Sept. 12, 2012
| For a short vacation away from Tahlequah, we chose to spend 3 days in Tulsa. At Wagoner, I noted a signal for a south bound freight on the former MP line, so we headed to the Wagoner Hot Spot. |
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| We then continued on to Tulsa. After dropping Jan off at Braum's across from the Genealogy Center of the Tulsa Public Library System, I headed to the Cherokee Yard Hot Spot. This is my action just south of the 17th Street crossing. This trimmer set is seen under the 23rd Street overpass. |
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| Next up was this trimmer set. |
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| And then this one again. |
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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 movement involved these WAMX locos on a train off the Stillwater Central, former Frisco line form Tulsa to Oklahoma City, heading to the South Kansas and Oklahoma which connects to the BNSF in downtown Tulsa. |
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| This trimmer set made another appearance with a different cut of cars. |
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| Our trimmer set is now seen beyond the 23rd Street overpass along with a couple of other sets of power. |
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| This set of yard units is seen returning with a string of tank cars from the oil facility east of Cherokee Yard along the bank of the Arkansas River. |
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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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| The intermodal train is then seen heading out the Avard Sub by taking the north leg of the wye. |
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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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| This lone GE then appeared from the east. |
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| The next movement was this eastbound freight. |
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| A trimmer set is seen meeting a power consist turning on the wye which leads to the Avard Sub. |
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| Next was this westbound freight coming off the Cherokee Sub and entering the Cherokee Yard receiving tracks. |
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| A trimmer set is seen coupled to a string of tank cars. |
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| The power for the previously seen westbound is seen heading east before it returns heading for the engine terminal. |
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| The leased switcher for the refinery is seen from Southwest Blvd, looking through the piers of the US75/I-244 overpass just east of the 17th Street crossing. |
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Sept. 13, 2012
On this date I turned 70!!!!!!!
| On my birthday, I headed trackside even though it was cloudy. My first rain was this westbound with 4 B-B units, 2 GEs and 2 EMDs. |
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| These 4 SD40s are seen leaving the classification yard. It then meets the westbound intermodal for the west coacst. |
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| The westbound intermodal changes crew at the 17th Street crossing and then heads around the west leg of the wye. |
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| Note the extra set of air cylinders on the trucks of the middle unit which can be used to lift the middle axle off the track at speed. |
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| At the end of the intermodal was a string of pig flats including a couple of FedEx Multimodal trailers as well as others. |
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| This tank car and caboose are now part of the US66 Park on Southwest Bld east of the hump of Cherokee Yard. |
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| I then decided to drive down to Sapulpa and look at the Tulsa Sapulpa Union railroad shops and the BNSF line from Texas. I barely arrived before spotting a northbound on the BNSF. |
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| Across the street from the TSU shops, I found this engine. |
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| Back at Cherokee Yard I found this westbound heading into the yard. |
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| The next move was by a trimmer set. |
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| Then a dust storm appeared in the form of a track gang. |
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| This power set dropped their train and is now heading to the engine terminal. |
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| After the meet this trimmer set continues north. |
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| This long string of units then appears and heads into the receiving yard. |
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| Including in the consist is one of the A-1-A GEs. |
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| A SD40 was the rear unit in the consist. |
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| This trimmer set then made a move. |
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Sept. 14, 2012
| On our way to the Gilchrease Museum, we spent a few minutes at Cherokee Yard where we caught this trimmer set heading east. |
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| A westbound freight is headed by one of the A-1-A GEs. |
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