Arkansas and Missouri’s passenger train arrives at Springdale, Arkansas, pass a bright A&M caboose on May 7, 2014. Nose-to-nose Alco C420 Nos. 58 and 44 lead the 5-car train.

The A&M passenger special from Butterfield, MO is on it's way back to Springdale, AR, seen here while pacing next to the highway near Seligman, MO.

Arkansas and Missouri RR ALCo C420 #68 leads a Monett, MO bound passenger train over the Sugar Creek trestle.

Arkansas and Missouri RR ALCo C420's #58, #42, and BNSF ES44DC #6024 lead a southbound grain train through the "S" curve south of Seligman, MO on this beautiful sunny day.

The 'big' train from Springdale was off its normal schedule today, which caused the turn that forwards cars off that train from Van Buren on to the main A&M yard in Ft Smith to also run late.

Displaced from the 'big' road trains, the C420s still take care of most everything else on the A&M. Late in the afternoon, 56 is climbing out of the Arkansas River valley as it returns to the Ft ... (more)

A&M's Rogers/Bentonville Local accelerates south past 4th of July decorations in downtown Rogers, AR in the last rays of light of the day.

A&M's Monett Turn passes a bucolic farm scene on its way north to the BNSF interchange at Monett, MO.

The Monett Turn heads south under sunny skies as it passes through Purdy, MO on 12/20/08.

A&M Train MNTN has worked the mill at Butterfield and is again on the move south of Exeter, MO as a grain truck patiently waits at the crossing for the big show known as the Monett Turn to pass. ... (more)

Now well underway on this hilly Ex-Frisco Line, grabbing notches coming out of a sag, A&M Train MNTN is making its way back south towards Springdale, AR. The crew of the Monett Turn relieved the ... (more)

A perfect set of 4 ALCO C420s bring A&M Train MNTN, the Monett Turn, into its namesake town as viewed from the US Highway 60 Overpass. I really wanted to shoot the train from this bridge, sin... (more)

With a deafening roar, a quartet of ALCOs roll north with A&M Train MNTN. The crossing says report an emergency or problem. Yeah, I got one for ya: The fact that in a week this train will have n... (more)

Running several hours late A&M Train MNTN is scooting north towards the yard with what's left of this morning's Fort Smith Turn. The Monett Turn's crew relieved this train in Winslow, AR this mor... (more)

What ever became of.....? I had always hoped they'd put a 12-251 in one of these but I guess they have plenty of frames so it was not to be. The parts were harder to come by and they ended up li... (more)