Various trains, birds, weed stalks and rabbits at Little Rock, Jacksonville and Brinkley, Arkansas in June and July, 2009. Included are:

1) Artsy photo of a tall weed at the Amtrak platform in Little Rock.
2) Baby Killdeer and its mother at Brinkley, AR
3) Baby rabbit at Little Rock
4) Old Rock Island roadbed at Brinkley
5) Workers working to enclose part of Union Station's balcony
6) Unpatched UP 192
7) UP 1539, 7708, 9671, 6598, 7693

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LEFT-Stalk of grass between the Amtrak platform and Amtrak siding at Little Rock, July 2, 2009. Thought I'd get a rabbit's eye view! RIGHT-Ants-eye view.


LEFT-July 1, 2009 at the south side of Union Station in Little Rock. UP 1539 leads a local at 8:35 a.m. RIGHT-A baby (or at least a teenage) bunny at the station.


LEFT-Looks like they're enclosing part of the balcony at Union Station on July 1. RIGHT-This is at Brinkley, Arkansas on June 27, 2009, on the north side of the Brinkley Depot Museum. You can see where the Rock Island's tracks were, both the main line (left) and siding (right).


LEFT-UP 7708 was one of 6 trains passing the Brinkley depot on June 27. Time was 3:27 p.m. RIGHT-A baby Killdeer bird running past the Brinkley depot. I chased this bird all over the grounds, and this is the only shot I could get.


I assume this is the baby Killdeer's mother. She didn't like me being there, chasing her baby around the grounds!! Killdeer have such pretty eyes.


LEFT-This was taken in Jacksonville, Arkansas, home of the Little Rock Air Force Base, which is the training base for C-130's. A UP southbound approached at 6:08 p.m. RIGHT-
UP 9671 at 6:09 p.m. June 22.


LEFT-June 29, 2009 at Union Station in Little Rock. UP 6598 leads an empty coal train, with unpatched SP 192 at 9:07 a.m. RIGHT-Unpatched SP 192. According to the builder's information below, it was built in May 1995 and weighs 412,000 pounds, Model AC4400-CW.


RIGHT-UP 7693 with an intermodal passed the stopped UP 6598 at 9:29 a.m June 29.

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