Sunday Jul 23 2006
A Glimpse of the OKT on July 23rd
I actually got out this morning around Saginaw and again this afternoon between Saginaw and Decatur, but I’ll save those shots for a future day. When the sun was high during the early afternoon I came home and delved into the slide boxes again. I found three shots from the early 1980’s when I lived in northwest Oklahoma and the ex-Rock Island north-south main line was operated by the Katy as the Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas. First up is a northbound loaded Dolese rock train stopped on the main at Hennessey, OK waiting for a new crew as afternoon thunderstorms loom in the background during July of 1983.
We saw the white stuff up there several times each winter, and January 27th of 1983 was no exception as OKT train #503 from Wichita to Fort Worth is seen leaving Enid, OK in the middle of a snow shower.
On a sunnier morning in December of 1984 we once again see the 503 train southbound, this time passing the old Rock Island depot at Kingfisher, OK. Today’s power is a new GP39-2 and two GP40’s.
One of these days soon I’ll break open the Frisco and Rock Island and KCS boxes……
