October 2004 in SEMO

Here's the 6060 parked in the P.B. Yards.

Here we see an old, beaten, and rusted 202 sitting in the P.B. yards.

Here's the train as it sneaks on past, heading towards the crew depot.

Here comes CSX 8550 and CSX 8237 on a southbound mixed freight.

Here we see the train backing in making a set out before going out as a light engine movement heading north for St. Louis, the SP unit was a "camo" ex-D&RGW (Rio Grande) locomotive, hence the submarks below the road number. The SD70M was one month old at the time.

Here we see the car moved and spotted on the wye in the yard, BP Amoco owns a car that is numbered 911. The Amoco car is labeled AMOCO SAFETY TRAIN and ya better look twice, at first glance it looks like an Amtrak tank car! The side of the pictured car and the BP one reads: TransCAER for Transportation Communication Awareness and Emergency Response. For an older photo try: http://trainweb.org/dbrr/freight/up911000.BHerbert.1.jpg . Another photo of this car at: http://www.trainweb.org/arkansastrains/railroad/uptank/UP911000/P0003289.htm

These two locomotives were sitting on the wye in front of the car.

Well, we beat the train back to Sikeston, here's the lead Oakway as it is about to clatter across the diamonds.

Here's my first GP30 that I had ever seen parked in the Chaffee yard. This unit was once painted in SPSF. This photo was Photo of the Day on Trains.com on 11-7-2004.

Here's the old caboose again at Illmo.

Here's the old Blue Streak Logo on the Cotton Belt caboose at Illmo.

I told ya that this town had a rich railroad and Frisco heritage and they certainly embrace their roots!

Here's the lead Oakway parked outside the crew depot at Chaffee.

Here are the engines on BNSF Train H NTWMEM1 21 sitting at the BNSF Chaffee Crew Change Point while the nkw crew boards and gets ready to heads for Memphis.

Here's another photo of the Frisco Forest...uh...bridge...lol!

Here's the switch, to the right the Frisco peeled off to downtown, where the depot still stands, to the left the old MP track still connects with the Union Pacific on the east side of Poplar Bluff.

Today was a Severe Storm Day (good for the storm spotter of me, but bad for the railfan part). Here we see this northbound manifest heading east and then north into tornado infested counties on this day, there were warnings all around.

It's Halloween but trains still roll, this one seen from the P.B. spot, led by two old workhorses, an SD40-2 and an SD40R. Both trains that I got photos of today were running elephant style.

This Ex-SP SD40 was part of Southern Pacific's GRIP (General Rehabilitation and Improvement Program) in the early '80s where this locomotive became an SD40R. It was one of the lucky 17 that survived the SP/UP merger and was never renumbered. It was sold to GECX in 2001 and the "Pacific" was removed, leaving only the "Southern" on the side of the unit, making it appear as something that it clearly isn't. There is a VERY small GECX marking above the road number.