KCS 3997 a Former Demonstrator & KCS 4046 race Downgrade after cresting Goffs Hill Near Fenner
Not looking to good at this time. Did some internet searching, but could find nothing definitive.......
A southbound TXUX train crawls over the top of the hill as it passes the displayed caboose at Gravette. Note the second unit. It is one of the EMD SD70ACe demonstrators. It will have a good roll from here to Dorsey, then another climb into Decatur.
Because the heavy trains tend to run south, more power winds up in Heavener than is needed for northbound trains. Thus, sometimes a lite power move is done to get all those DPUs back to Pittsburg for another push over the grades on the subdivision. This is one such move, seen going away as it approaches Watts.
A light power move rolls north just south of Watts, with a good mix of power, including an international visitor. Also notable is the third unit, KCS 3997, one of the EMDX SD70ACe demonstrators; and KCS 4618, one of the few, but slowly growing number of AC44CW's that are being repainted into the Belle scheme.
KCS 3997 leads a NB Empty Grain Train
Southbound manifest rolls through Eagleton Arkansas.
Norfolk Southern Intermodal Train 220 makes their way Westbound as they pass through Douglasville, GA.
NS Eastbound Intermodal Train 220 ( Meridian, Ms. to Atlanta, Ga. ) passing through Temple, Ga. 220 runs as I- DAAT ( Dallas, Tx. to Atlanta, Ga. ) via KCS
NS Eastbound Intermodal Train 220 ( Meridian, Ms. to Atlanta, Ga. ) passing through Douglasville, Ga. 220 runs as I- DAAT ( Dallas, Tx. to Atlanta, Ga. ) via KCS
NS Eastbound Intermodal Train 220 ( Meridian, Ms. to Atlanta, Ga. ) passing through Villa Rica, Ga. 220 runs as I- DAAT ( Dallas, Tx. to Atlanta, Ga. ) via KCS
NS Southbound Freight Train 339 ( Birmingham, Al. to Meridian, Ms. ) passing through 64th Street in Woodlawn, Al. 339 runs as M- NSSH ( Norfolk Southern in Meridian, Ms. to Shreveport, La. ) via KCS
NS Southbound Freight Train 339 ( Birmingham, Al. to Meridian, Ms. ) passing through 64th Street in Woodlawn, Al. 339 runs as M- NSSH ( Norfolk Southern in Meridian, Ms. to Shreveport, La. ) via KCS
NS 339 passing Woodlawn, AL at 64th St. AGS#1. 3 Belle ACes lead the manifest to Meridian, MS, former demonstrator of emd sd70ace & before it became a Belle years ago.
NS Southbound Freight Train 339 ( Birmingham, Al. to Meridian, Ms. ) passing through Powderly, Al. 339 runs as M- NSSH ( Norfolk Southern in Meridian, Ms. to Shreveport, La. ) via KCS
NS Northbound Local Freight Train AB47 getting ready to make a pick up at North Yard in Birmingham, Al. & head to Norris Yard in Irondale, Al. after making a brake test
SECOND IN LINE WITH KCS 4708 AT NORCO LA.
KCS 4708 LEADS KCS 3997 AND MIXED FREIGHT.
KCS 3997, EMD SD70ACe, ex EMDX 71, fresh KCS Southern Belle repaint, on the BNSF at Council Bluffs Iowa on 5/2/2007
Two KCS SD70ACe's lead 339 south down NS's Alabama Great Southern South District.
First Belle ever painted.
Bulldog Country!
KCS3997 which once was one of the EMDX Demonstrator units brings the H SHKC 26 north through Sallisaw, OK