Locomotives: NS 8772 (looked like the 8772 was hand painted on the front of the engine) *** UP 7936, 5926, 4775, 4236, 352, 7132, 4477, 9613, 9739, 9798 (former CNW), 4938, 4144, 5537, 8327, 4099, 4589, 7709, 7672, 6159 *** CSXT 8597, 3067, 768 *** HLCX 991 *** FXE 4034 *** BNSF 4045, 7471, 9168, 4845, 4024 *** GMTX 2116, 415 *** LRWN 500, 103, 2017.
NS 8772, 1:43 p.m., Monday April 21. Doesn't the 2 in the number board look hand-written? APAMER-20 (Auto-Pt. Allen, LA-Memphis-Reposition)
NS 8772.
Dark skies and rainy weather was moving in. That's why I'm on the covered balcony of Union Station.
UP 7935, 1:57 p.m. ZMXDT-19
UP 5926.
Stack train mixed with autorack.
UP 4775, 2:06 p.m.
UP 4775 with a colorful consist. YNL75-21 Nice consist for a switch engine!
Nice, colorful consist.
CSXT 8597.
CSXT 3067.
HLCX 991.
UP 4236.
FXE 4034.
UP 352. We think the blue on the side of the locomotive is old Missouri Pacific blue paint showing through the UP yellow, which has chipped off.
Colorful 7-engines.
UP 563191 yellow UP boxcar.
SSW 67768 Golden West boxcar. Date is still Monday, April 21.
TILX 224051 tank car, built 6-83 but obviously repainted.
ITLX 20072 Cargill hopper, built 8-73, 41 years old.
GATX 8813 short tank car.
Dark clouds with a line of thunderstorms about to move in from the west, about 2:10 p.m.
AEX 10300 old BN green hopper.
CNW 437007 hopper.
AOKX 181650 CNW long hopper.
SRN 6237 Corinth & Counce Railroad Company boxcar.
UP 7132, 2:14 p.m. April 21. RRGTRS-19 (Rock-Refugio, TX-W. Chicago, IL-Sand)
UP 4477.
UP 9613, 2:31 p.m.
UP 9613, 2:32 p.m. This consist last shows on the RPNNL-18 (Rock-Paxton, TX-N. Little Rock) But I think that it is going the wrong way?
UP 9739.
UP 9798, former CNW.
UP 9798.
GMQX 050 hopper, Granite Mountain Quarry Little Rock, which loads ballast that's used all over the country.
UP 4938, 2:47 p.m. MPSLI-20 (Manifest-Parsons, KS-Livonia, LA)
UP 4144.
UP 5537 on far track waiting for a signal as UP 4938 passes southbound, 2:48 p.m.
ACFX 94683 tank car, built 9-92.
Finishing passing at 2:51 p.m. as crew member of UP 5537 inspects the passing train.
UP 5537, finally leaving at 2:54 p.m. April 21. GSTESD-20 (Grain-Tenaha, TX-Coffeyville, KS)
UP 8327 and 4099.
UP 4800, 3:05 p.m. ZMXYC-19
UP 4589.
Stack train.
UP 7709, 3:14 p.m. heading a short stack train. KLDMN-20
Short intermodal.
Rain and lightning was moving in at 3:48 p.m. April 21.
Dark clouds over the Arkansas State Capitol taken from the south side of Union Station, the front, at 3:51 p.m.
Both the state capitol and Union Station in one shot with the dark clouds.
Yellow southbound signal 3:53 p.m.
BNSF 4045 and 7471, 4:11 p.m. on an oil train. OSNES-20 (Ore-St. James, LA-E. St. Louis)
Very loud thunder at this time. Glad I'm under the stations balcony roof.
BNSF 9168, the dpu of the oil train, 4:15 p.m.
4:48 p.m. April 21, Monday, heavy rain during rush hour. Glad I didn't have to deal with that in weather like this.
Old Glory still flies, rain or shine.
UP 7672, 5:12 p.m. MSANL-20
UP 6159.
GMTX 2116 and 415 and a RJ Corman boxcar RCJM 4002.
MWCX 462673 Route Rock former Rock Island blue hopper.
NKCR 14296 orange boxcar.
HPJX 5653 boxcar.
NWR 6023 yellow UP boxcar.
GTW 384576 boxcar.
CR 223385 Conrail boxcar.
KCS 759028 boxcar.
NS 654045 hycube boxcar.
SMW 540022 Wisconsin Central boxcar. Can't help the graffiti. Although I don't routinely take graffiti just for the sake of graffiti most of the time, if I seen a rare-fallen flag freight car, I'll get a picture of that car even if it has graffiti on it. I've had requests to get more photos of graffiti and requests to not take any graffiti at all, so I compromised and only take graffiti if it's on otherwise rare cars, with only a few exceptions. like the famous Bugs Bunny autorack car painting of over a year ago.
xx101617 light blue boxcar, Couldn't find any identifying marks.
A good ole' MKT green short hopper, MKT 580. The wet sides make the green look darker.
BNSF 4845, 5:44 p.m. still on Monday, April 21 in the rain. BNSF trackage rights train V RICTUP4-14 Used UP tracks from Rosenberg, TX to Bridge Jct. AR
BNSF 4024.
Let's jump ahead one day to Tuesday, April 22. It's sunny, but unfortunately it's after 4 p.m. and I have to look into the sun for eastbound trains (the tracks run east-west past Union Station but are mostly southwest to northeast across other areas of central Arkansas. The official direction of trains here are northbound and southbound. This is UP 5020, 4:41 p.m. April 22. AARAS-21
UP 5020/
UP 5161. The train was in shade so I lightened up the scene so you can see the locomotives.
4:44 p.m. looking east.
5:44 p.m.
UP 8765, 5:44 p.m. ILXMN-19 (Intermodal-LATX/Los Angeles-Marion, AR)
UP 5605, dpu, 5:48 p.m.
A train comes out of the shade at 5:52 p.m. southbound.
UP 6890, 5:53 p.m. CATTU9-20 (Coal-Antelope Mine-Fulton, AR)
UP 6890.
UP 6602, on the loaded coal train destined for Fulton, Arkansas.
UP 6468, dpu of the coal train at 6:00 p.m.
UP 6468 pushing to help the heavy coal train along.
Little Rock & Western's train westbound at 6:05 p.m. headed by LRWN 500, former Bay Line locomotive. The train will head to the western part of Little Rock at what's called Pulaski, where there's a small yard where LRWN stores and switches lots of freight cars, using the former Rock Island's tracks.
Again, the entire train was in the shade on the south side so I lightened it up. Sorta looks surreal. You can see The Bay Line locomotive better.
LRWN 103, a GP-9 being put back in service during the past few months.
LRWN 2017.
LRWN 500, 103 and 2017 heading a very long train today, April 22.
Ashley Drew & Northern boxcar ALM 5877.
LRWN 195063 boxcar.
CRLE 'shocking bright' blue boxcar.
LRWN 2106 boxcar, maybe a former Rock Island??
Another 'shocking bright' blue boxcar, CRLE 6409.
NOKL 310698 worn gondola.
UP 3957 northbound, 6:11 p.m. MSANL-21
CSXT 768.
SSW 78698 Cotton Belt hopper.
Front of the Amtrak station at Union Station seen in the bright sun. Normally nobody is here until Amtrak's Texas Eagles arrive, the northbound at 11:31 p.m. just before midnight and the southbound at 3:02 a.m. However, other offices of Union Station are full of people during the daytime with the parking lot full. The Bailey Corporation owns and rents the station's offices. The upper floors are very active.
I saw this in North Little Rock. According to Gary Williams from Facebook, it's a boiler. The car has two-3-axle set of wheels.
My second Ashley Drew & Northern boxcar today, ADN 9752.