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Contributed by H. E. Huber, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Arkansas Central train at their staion in Ft. Smith. |
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Contributed by H. E. Huber, Louis A. Marre Collection |
St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern #5511 in
Ft. Smith in 1914. |
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Mike Condren Collection |
To the fight, the Frisco station shows beyond the water tank. To the left the arches of the Albert Pike Garrison Ave.bridge show beyond the locomotive pilot. |
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John Fink Photo, Louis Marre Collection |
This 3/19/40 view of the north end of the station shows the open platforn last car of train #126. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6604 stops in Van Buren, 7/42. |
| In 1943 the Missouri Pacific installed CTC from the west switch in Van Buren to Greenwood Jct and then down the line to Ft Smith. This story was featured in Railway Age. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6428 takes water during its stop in Ft. Smith, 5/13/43. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-8-2 #5310 on train #126 changes crew at Van Buren Yard Office, 9/15/44. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6625 on train #125 changes crew at Van Buren Yard Office, 9/15/44. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-8-2 #5310 on train #126 pauses at Van Buren, 1/17/45. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6613 at Van Buren station, 1/26/46. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6613 at Van Buren station, 3/29/46. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-8-2 #5309 at Van Buren station, 6/16/46. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6617 at Van Buren station, 9/29\\17/46. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6423 at Van Buren station, 10/1/46. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis Marre Collection |
MP 4-6-2 #6621 is at the headend of the train in Ft. Smith, 8/31/47. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP EA7 7012 on train #126 is paused at the Van Buren Yard Office to change crews, 12/30/56. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP PA #8005 sits on a rainy evening in the Ft. Smith station, 3/5/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP E7 #7013 sits in the Ft. Smith station, 3/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP PA #8004 on train #125 in the Ft. Smith station, 4/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP EA7 7014 on train #126 unloads mail and express in the Ft. Smith station, 3/57. Note the mail storage box car. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP EA7 #7014 on train #126 takes the south leg of the wye, before backing into the Ft. Smith station, 4/2/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP F7 #591 leads train #125 at Ft. Smith, 6/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP E7A #7005 leads train #125 at Ft. Smith, 6/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP E7A #7007 leads train #125 at Ft. Smith, 6/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP E7 #7010 pauses at the Yard Office in Van Buren to change crews before leading train #126, 8/18/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
MP train # 126 E-7 #7011 at the Arkansas
Central station in Ft. Smith, AR 7/58 |
Classic Trains article "Shooting Eagles", Winter 2004
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP train # 126 E-7 #7008 at the station in Ft. Smith, AR 7/58 |
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Louis A. Marre Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
MP train #125 PA-2 #8030 Alma, AR 9/7/58 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP E-6 #7003 backs train #125 down the east leg of the wye before pulling forward to a stop in Ft. Smith, 8/58. Note that Frisco train #710 sits in the Ft. Smith station just behind tall grass. (EMD S/N: 1390 10/23/41; scrapped North Little Rock 3/31/65. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
| MP E7 #7008 leads train #125 past the stock yards of West Ft. Smith, OK on its journey to Little Rock, AR, 8/58. |
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Louis A. Marre Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
| MP E8 #7020 leads train #126 across the Moffet, OK US 64 overpass on its return to the mainline in Greenwwod, Junction, OK, 6/59. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP #8020 leads train #126 north out of Greenwood Jct., OK on its way to Kansas City, 9/2/59. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
| MP #8032 leaves the portal of the Helen Gould bridge as it departs Ft. Smith on train #126, 12/59. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
MP F7 #569 leads train #126 in Ft. Smith, 1/2/60. |
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Gordon Mott Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
| MP E-8 #7020 exits the Arkansas River bridge and takes the south leg of the wye as it enters Ft. Smith on its last roundtrip, March 27, 1960. This photo was taken seconds before the sequence below. |
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All photos by Mike Condren |
A group of snapshots of the next to the last northbound
#126 on March 27, 1960 arriving. In the upper left is the train exiting
the Arkansas River bridge and taking the south leg of the wye. The upper
right shot shows the train backing down the east leg of the wye. The
lower left shot shows the train pulling around the north leg of the
wye for its stop. The lowest shot shows the crew in front of their engine.
Left to right: man in suit, unknown; Paul DuVal, conductor; Oscar Whitson,
brakeman; Vernon Muck, fireman; and Earl Holloway, engineer. Can anyone
identify the man in the suit? |
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All photos by Mike Condren |
| This series of snap shots are of the last north bound Missouri Pacific passenger train to stop in Van Buren, AR, March 28, 1960. The gentleman racing to the cab in the bottom picture is Press Argus Editor and Publisher, Hugh Parks. Can anyone identify any of the members of this crew? |
