Getting serviced at the fuel racks at Heavener yard

A Kansas City Southern grain train, led by a pair of SD70ACe locomotives, head north across the Illinois River near Watts, OK on a rainy March 21, 2022 afternoon.

Heading back to the yard, the Watts Dodger local crosses the Illinois River near Watts, OK on a cloudy March 21, 2022, shortly before a thunderstorm would roll through.

Having just come out of the siding at Watts, OK, the engineer turns up the throttle on his three EMD switchers leading the Watts Dodger local train northbound in the morning light of March 21, 202... (more)

A BNSF coal train heads south across a bridge just north of Watts, OK late in the day on February 27, 2022.

Southbound manifest train MKCSH rolls by the small lake at Adair Park in Stilwell, OK on a warm February 27, 2022.

BNSF 6619 leads a westbound Q train up Curtis Hill.

3 BNSF GEVOs lead a westbound Z train on the curve at Heman, OK as they begin the climb up Curtis Hill on the BNSF Panhandle Subdivision.

Two BNSF SD40-2s lead a local up Curtis Hill on the BNSF Panhandle Sub on a cold Saturday morning.

After stopping in the siding at Watts, OK to let a southbound coal train pass, a northbound grain train gets underway on the sunny afternoon of February 4, 2022. Two SD70ACe units lead this train ... (more)

In the late afternoon sun of a warm January 31, 2022, a loaded Union Pacific coal train heads south across the Illinois River near Watts, OK.

The local "Watts Dodger" train heads south across the Illinois River just north of Watts, OK on a mild January 10, 2022. Three EMD four-axle units head up this train, which is heading ba... (more)

Snow continues to fall as SD70ACe number 4039 leads a northbound grain train across the Illinois River near Watts, OK on a chilly January 15, 2022. Although I was hoping for a thicker layer of sno... (more)

Steaming Out Of 2021. Any list of the top stories of 2021 has to include the second year of touring of Union Pacific Railroad's 4014 (Alco, 4-8-8-4) across the system since its 2019 restora... (more)