Sacrilege
These plug and play remote control systems that have become more prevalent on shortlines in recent years sure do mar the looks of the locomotive. But if that's what it takes to keep these classic dinosaurs running and pulling frieght I'm ok with it!
Anyway, we tried to at least see each of the four Arkansas and Missouri Railroad jobs on duty from Springdale the day we set aside to visit. I already shared one shot of the SMTN road train with the SD70ACEs and several of the SFLO Springdale local. While we would spend most of our day with the latter we did at least see the other two jobs. Here is the Sand Remote job which was on duty at 0700 that we found out near the end of the short Bentonville branch which now only extends from Rogers only about 3.5 miles to the Bentonville line but prior to 1940 reached about 45 miles to Grove, OK. The job was found west of the North 24th St. crossing slowly dumping sand cars at the SMG Materials pit. Sole power was AM 32 an Alco C424 blt. Apr. 1965 as Belt Railway of Chicago 601.
Rogers, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
Sacrilege
These plug and play remote control systems that have become more prevalent on shortlines in recent years sure do mar the looks of the locomotive. But if that's what it takes to keep these classic dinosaurs running and pulling frieght I'm ok with it!
Anyway, we tried to at least see each of the four Arkansas and Missouri Railroad jobs on duty from Springdale the day we set aside to visit. I already shared one shot of the SMTN road train with the SD70ACEs and several of the SFLO Springdale local. While we would spend most of our day with the latter we did at least see the other two jobs. Here is the Sand Remote job which was on duty at 0700 that we found out near the end of the short Bentonville branch which now only extends from Rogers only about 3.5 miles to the Bentonville line but prior to 1940 reached about 45 miles to Grove, OK. The job was found west of the North 24th St. crossing slowly dumping sand cars at the SMG Materials pit. Sole power was AM 32 an Alco C424 blt. Apr. 1965 as Belt Railway of Chicago 601.
Rogers, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021