Saturday, April 26, 2008 at Brinkley, Arkansas. I took advantage of a slow order of trains passing the depot in the afternoon to try some different photographic angles. On most days, by the time I hear the locomotive's horn at the crossing just north of the depot,  it's passing the station so I just get the shot through the window. Included today: CSX 7629, 7870 *** UP 9657, 6468, 8558, 4974, 4838 *** Columbus & Greenville boxcar *** NEGRO De HUMO - NEGROMEX hopper ENDX 455325 (I've never seen this name on a hopper).



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LEFT-CSX 7629, 9:07 a.m. They were still running track speed at this time (60 mph). RIGHT-UP 9657, 10:46 a.m. They had started the slow order.


RIGHT-ENDX 455325 NEGRO De HUMO NEGROMEX hopper. From Trainorders.com and Railspot: The owner of that hopper car is GATX de Mexico SA de CV and it is assigned to Negro de Humo Negromex which is a company in Mexico which deals in carbon black among other products. Also, from Jim Satterwhite: "ENDX is the Mexican arm of GATX Leasing." From Rick Duncan: "Looks like a carbon black supplier or some sort of energy company? This from a Google translation of one of the references found when searching on "negro de humo negromex".  "Negro de humo" is literally "black smoke." - BTW, your query on Trainorders is already indexed by Google!"


CSX 7870, 11:50 a.m. from the east. Mr. Otten from the Arkansas Railroad Club was here at this time.


RIGHT-At the same time the CSX train was going around the curve from Memphis, UP 6468 showed up from the north at 11:52 a.m.


LEFT-Passing. RIGHT-They were working north of Brinkley from noon till 4 p.m. replacing ties. At 4:18 p.m. UP 8558 showed up with an intermodal.  I was sitting on the ground, trying to get the flowers and green grass in the photo, sort of a gopher's view (in fact, the field across the track is full of gopher holes).


LEFT-A bread and butter train for UP - UPS trailers. RIGHT-UP 4974, 4:29 p.m.


RIGHT-Columbus & Greenville boxcar, HS 30967.


UP 4838 from the other side of the Brinkley depot at 4:44 p.m. Lots of flagged UP locomotives today.