After our Fort Smith trip, those who had paid for the event met in front of the Springdale station where Bart and I divided the group into two parts of 25 people. My group, along with Bart, would go to the new Car Shop building, where we collected the NRHS Shop Tour tickets.
Arksansas and Missouri T6 18, ex. Maryland and Delaware 18, nee Norfolk and Western 19, built by American Locomotive Company in 1959.
This is the new car shop of the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad.
Looking in the new car shop.
Arkansas & Missouri Railroad truck in the shop.
The trailer behind the truck.
The remote control trackmobile.
Our group during the tour.
Arkansas and Missouri Railroad locomotive line-up.
Our group learning about the remote control trackmobile.
A portable jack.
There are two big fans to circulate the air. From here we walked over to the engine shop.
Arkansas and Missouri C-424 32, ex. Arkansas and Missouri 01, nee Belt Railway of Chicago 601, built by American Locomotive Company in 1965.
Arkansas and Missouri SD70ACe 70, ex. CAT Display Locomotive, built by Electro-Motive Division as EMDX 1201 in 2012.
Arkansas and Missouri C-420s 46 (ex. Louisville and Nashville 1354, exx. Seaboard Coast Line 1215, nee Seaboard Air Line 113 built by American Locomotive Company in 1965) and and 66 (ex. Delaware and Hudson 412, nee Lehigh Valley 412 built by American Locomotive Company in 1964).
Our group in the A&M Engine Shop.
Arkansas and Missouri RS-1 20, ex. Virginia and Maryland 20, exx. Public Utilities Commission South Carolina 4, exxx. Southern 4, exxxx. Tennessee Railroad 4, nee Rutland 400, built by American Locomotive Company in 1951.
Arkansas and Missouri C-420 56, ex. British Columbia Railway 631, nee Lehigh and Hudson River 25 built by American Locomotive Company in 1966.
Inside the A&M Engine Shop.
Locomotive wheel.
Arkansas and Missouri TEBU 80, ex. MJRX 1606, exx. Southern Pacific 1606, rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen into a TEBU, nee Southern Pacific U25B 6712 built by General Electric in 1963.
Views inside the Engine Shop.
Our group inside the shop.
Arkansas and Missouri RS-1 20.
Arkansas and Missouri SD70ACe 72, ex. EMDX 1203, nee EMDX 2111 built by Electro-Motive Division in 2012.
Arkansas and Missouri C-420 32. This ended our NRHS Shop Tour and I led the group back to the bus then said goodbye to Bart and Steve Miller and left the station, stopping at Arby's to take dinner back to my room. I washed my clothes while I wrote my stories and finished both before going to bed.
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