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.
Their work done for the day, a pair of A-OK locomotives sit in front of the yard office in McAlester.
A Kansas City Southern manifest train creeps along at Watts, OK shortly before working the yard and then heading south on March 28, 2021.
Having just left Arkansas, a pair of Kansas City Southern SD70ACe units lead a southbound manifest freight train across the Illinois River in Watts, Oklahoma on a sunny March 28, 2021.
Coming out of the siding after just being passed, a loaded BNSF coal train heads south on the main track at Watts, OK on March 28, 2021.
The tail end of a northbound train passes the Fort Smith Turn which has just arrived in Heavener Yard.
The Fort Smith Turn arrives at Heavener Yard on a beautiful day in eastern Oklahoma.
KCS 5007 DPU pauses to take on fuel in Heavener Oklahoma prior to departing for points north.
With the supposed CP-KCS merger announcement made, will scenes like this become a thing of the past? Only time will tell....
BNSF 9936 is in the Page siding as a southbound KCS coal train races past, but will soon be down to a crawl as it heads up Rich Mountain.
BNSF 4367 Winding its way through Big Canyon at Crusher Oklahoma
A 24 car grain train is tied down on the main line just outside of Lone Wolf OK.
