Northbound on Rich Mountain near rich Mountain siding

Cruising Into The Future Night has fallen over Gravette, AR and just over three hours remain before the CPKC merger goes into effect as a northbound KCS grain train rides off into the nig... (more)

End Of The Day, End Of An Era The light in the sky is quickly fading on the evening of Thursday, April 13, 2023 while a southbound coal train heads up the grade into Gravette, AR on the Ka... (more)

A pair of KCSM Taco Belle's leads a loaded grain train through Rich Mountain on its way to Mexico.

A loaded BNSF coal train rolls through Mena Arkansas bound for TXU in Texas.

A pair of KCSM Taco Belle's leads a loaded grain train through Rich Mountain on its way to Mexico.

MOP was a sharp outfit.

The Flint Creek Power Plant is a base load 528 MW coal-fired power plant built in 1978. It is owned 50% split between SWEPCO/AEP and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. The KCS supplies coal to th... (more)

I was about to give up on ever seeing a three porthole Phase I F3 when we spotted this thing. Last one also.

UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 610 sits in the sandblasting bay at the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. After all the desired paint and lettering is ... (more)

Late in the day on a sunny and warm Saturday, March 4, 2023, a pair of GE locomotives pull a southbound train of 93 loaded grain cars alongside a dammed section of Butler Creek, located just south... (more)

Under the bright morning sun, a mixed freight train charges uphill on its way north through Gravette, AR on Monday, February 27, 2023.

Just shy of the 10th anniversary of my first visit I made it back to the Alco shrine and found this ex D&H unit basking the soft northern Arkansas sun.

Business took me to Ft. Smith so only a slight detour was needed to do some railfanning and I found this. Freshly in from Essex Terminal but some what obscure. I find no shots of it on this site... (more)

Conductor scrambles to get aboard as this long train is departing with "foreign" power.