The Arkansas & Missouri has been pretty busy lately, normally running a daylight Ft. Smith turn on Sundays. While looking for the 1330 passenger train, we stumbled into the freight train instead c... (more)

Saturday morning local working Springdale with the 18 and 57.

Derailment put three Alcos on the ground.

Welcome to Springdale!

The 1987 Arkansas & Missouri photographers special included a stop at the remote South Mountain viaduct. Here is the Fort Smith Turn on the viaduct.

Arkansas and Missouri's original owners, the Hannolds, were very receptive to rail photography - so much so that they sponsored several invitation-only photographer specials. My friend Rich Jahn w... (more)

Late in the day, bathed in golden sunlight, the Monett Turn scoots through Gateway in run 8. They're running way behind today and will waste no time getting back to Springdale. Even running track ... (more)

A&M's Monett Turn rolls north through Seligman bound for the BNSF interchange.

A&M's Monett Turn heads north behind five Alco C420s as it crawls upgrade at Wimpy Jones Road.

It's a busy morning just after sunrise on the A&M as the power from the Fort Smith Turn is positioned by the shops for servicing. Soon, four of the C420's will be left on the shop lead and three w... (more)

The engineer on the Rogers job turns up the juice as he shoves out onto the main. They had to clear up on the branch for the Monett turn to run through to Springdale.

While A&M's operating road power gets the glory, they've got an amazing collection of stored units as well that function as a parts source for the operating fleet, seeing that one can't exactly ca... (more)

The highlight of the trip? It was very likely this. Just north of the A&M shops, we see this ex-N&W ALCO T6 kicking cars in the Springdale, AR yard. While the road trains had the bigger power, t... (more)

The Alcos leading the Monett Turn are almost as old as the 55 Caddy next to the right-of-way in Purdy, MO. But unlike the Cadillac they are still earning their keep.

A washout near Chester, AR caused a derailment of the nocturnal A&M Fort Smith Turn in mid September. The lead locomotive rolled on its left side during the incident. Fortunately the crew did not ... (more)