As dawn breaks over downtown Tulsa, OK, a westbound train of autoracks drifts along on a cool Monday, February 20, 2023.
Working customers on the northeast side of town, this crew has run out of time, and is waiting for a van to take them back to Cherokee Yard. Their locomotive was delivered to AT&SF in June 1969.
BNSF 5522 leads a westbound Z train through Tulsa as it takes the curve to the west onto the BNSF Avard Sub.
BNSF 7047 leads the H-MEMTUL1-04A westbound into BNSF's Cherokee Yard in Tulsa, OK.
A stop while driving from Fort Worth to KC between training assignments netted this view at Frisco's Cherokee yard service track in 1980. The Frisco SD45's had the L shaped windshield that only a ... (more)
M-K-T F3(A) 70A with GP40 216, and 223 with Caboose at Tulsa, Oklahoma. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection.
A set of local power returns to Cherokee Yard in Tulsa, OK.
A pair of hump sets work at the west end of Cherokee Yard with two wagon wheel executive MAC's leading each set. With many SD70MAC's that have an unknown fate, it's nice to see them still working ... (more)
Frisco (SL-SF) SD40-2 nos. 950-957.
The daily-except Sunday turn from Jenks works former Midland Valley trackage in West Tulsa.
The Frisco Meteor resting under the Tulsa Night Sky.
There BNSF Dash 8's along with some local power resting on a storage track near BNSF's Cherokee yard in Tulsa.
B-B local power waits in the snow for the next call to service. B23-7 4274 was delivered to Santa Fe in December 1985, but I bet it left BNSF's roster before GP30u 2460, an upgraded version of a ... (more)
A westbound freight nears the end of it's journey coming into Tulsa's Cherokee Yard. A pair of CP units bring up the rear in two different colors.