NORMAN OK Oct 8 1980 — Santa Fe U36C 8729 is at the head end of train 513 as it passes the Amtrak station. The mixed freight is northbound and running at the timetable-dictated 45 mph. My photo.... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 18 1983 — BN GP38AC 2124 lays over at the former Frisco Yard off Byars southeast of city center. EMD delivered this unit as SLSF GP38AC 647 in March 1971. My photo.

TUPELO OK Jan 28 1985 — Missouri Pacific GP50 3507 leads a southbound TOFC train as it holds the siding waiting for UP 4-8-4 8444 to pass. Note railfans on the highway 3 overpass in the left bac... (more)

TUPELO OK Jan 28 1985 — UP 4-8-4 8444 steams north with a helicopter overhead. The locomotive and its train are returning to Cheyenne WY after an appearance at the Louisiana World Exhibition in ... (more)

The KC to Sanchez Yard - Nuevo Laredo, MX, freight train is back on the move after meeting one, following one. Both trains meet a northbound grain empty here at Watts on the Heavener Sub. The KCSZ... (more)

The Heavener Sub rolls south out of the Ozark Mountains towards the Arkansas River Valley. The railroad has 100 miles of Oklahoma running as they drop down from the 1321 feet summit at Gentry, AR,... (more)

A loaded grain train from Mexico, MO, bound for Mexico City, Mexico, twist upgrade out of Watts. The 2x2 Dp'd train is working over the 210 miles crew district from Pittsburg to Heavener. The trai... (more)

A loaded grain train from Mexico, MO, bound for Mexico City, Mexico, twist upgrade out of Watts. The 2x2 Dp'd train is working over the 210 miles crew district from Pittsburg to Heavener. The trai... (more)

EL RENO OK August 15 1983 - CRIP GP71504 sits at the ready to depart the shops area. The unit was leased by the bankruptcy trustee for use cleaning up Rock Island property after the final shutdown... (more)

KINGFISHER OK Aug 15 1983 — Rock Island Trustee GP7 1504 leads a hospital train of freight cars. It has just passed under the US 81 overpass north of Kingfisher. The 1504 was built in May 1952 (... (more)

BISON OK Aug 15 1983 — Rock Island Trustee GP7 1504 leads a hospital train of freight cars at rest on a siding. Note the jointed rail. The 1504 was built in May 1952 (s/n 16343) for Pittsburgh a... (more)

NS 8025 leads the Z-AUGSBD through eastern Oklahoma on the BNSF Cherokee Sub.

Local train RWT102-28, commonly referred to as the Watts Dodger, picks up speed while crossing a bridge just north of Watts, OK on a sunny September 28, 2022 morning. Leading the train is an ex-Fr... (more)

The last sunlight of the day illuminates a northbound Kansas City Southern grain train as it rolls across the Illinois River just north of Watts, OK on September 27, 2022.

Tulsa-Irving across the long Lake Texoma trestle on the former Frisco