A re-crewed Fort Smith Turn breaks the silence in the crisp morning air as it thunders upgrade at Greenland heavy with sand cars, coming out of the Boston Mountains. The sound of 7 12-251's in run... (more)
With a crispness in the air just before sunrise, C424 number 34 stands at the ready next to the A&M's new shops. 34 is RC equipped and is the normal unit on the remote job. Canon 350D.
A&M's Monett Turn nears its home at Springdale passing through the dip at Avoca with 5 Alcos and a 48 car train.
Sure hope this one and only A&M former SP TEBU slug does not end up being added to the pile of parts in the foreground.
AM 62 sits at the shop awaiting its fate.
Sic transit gloria mundi What has been an everyday sight in the hills of Arkansas will soon just be a memory as generic EMD's take over another ALCO bastion.
In a strange move, with no interchange traffic to bring north, the turn runs up to Monett light power, and is seen here coming through the S-curves at Garfield. Canon 350D.
After hog lawing at Winslow and meeting the passenger train and remote job in Fayetteville, 14,000 Horsepower of ALCO 251s growls upgrade at Johnson with the Fort Smith Turn. Canon 350D.
Seven Alco C420's has just cut off from their train and are now rolling toward the shop for servicing before heading out of town to Monett Missouri.
A very late running Fort Smith Turn slowly rolls through the quite town of Johnson with a monster consist of Alco C420's seven strong.
AM 62 is now a parts donor as pieces are slowly stripped off this once proud running Alco.
AM 34 belches black smoke on the way south to get out of the way of the Monett Turn, arriving from the north.
The Rogers local heads back towards Rogers off the branch after doing some work.
The Monett turn rolls north into Monett.
