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

PURCELL OK (August) 1977 — Recently outshopped Santa Fe CF7 2448 leads a northbound mixed freight. The train is passing by the former engine facility which is to the right of photo. The roundhou... (more)

Having just worked the yard in Watts, OK, manifest train MSHKC-22 exits the siding and heads north across the Illinois River on a sunny August 23, 2022. Captured on Lomography Color Negative 40... (more)

The Illinois River is quiet and calm on the afternoon of September 10, 2022 as northbound manifest train MSHKC-09 pulls out of the siding at Watts, OK. Having just worked the yard at Watts, this t... (more)

A bright September 10, 2022 morning sees a southbound coal train cruising through Bunch, OK. Though I made it trackside at 7:30 that morning, it wasn't until almost 11 that I saw the first train o... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY (October) 1979 — Katy F7A 72C is tied down at the old roundhouse site in Turner Yard. It had the point on the journey from McAlester OK but will relinquish its lead spot for the re... (more)

OKARCHE OK Jan 17 1983 — Katy GP40 3109 and GP40 171 are switching cars at a bulk loading facility. This was the Rock Island's north-south line which Katy took over and operated as the Oklahoma... (more)

DAVIS OK July 25 1979 — Santa Fe GP9u 2250 and GP30u 3276 approach the East 1750 Road road overpass on the south side of Davis as they power the southbound Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey ... (more)