Interesting day at the train station in Little Rock, Arkansas, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. First was a long engine power move that arrived at 11:53 a.m. from Long Beach, California (the ELBNL-17), then about 20 minutes later the Pine Bluff local (YNL75) passed the station with UP Heritage 1982 (MoPac) in the lead, followed by UP Heritage 1996 (SP) and bright red Canadian Pacific 8811. A very colorful train.

Included today:
1) A long stack train
2) UP 4383, 8077, 4569, 4542, 4213, 4130, 4119, 4143, 4061, 4586, 4062, 4154, 4288, 4293, 4220, 4266, 8397, 1982, 1996
3) CP 8811
4) Ashley, Drew & Northern boxcar HS 30552
5) My Mockingbird bird-ham posing for my other camera

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LEFT-A very long stack train. RIGHT-UP 4383, 10:34 a.m.


LEFT-Ashley, Drew & Northern HS 30552. RIGHT-This Mockingbird sitting on the fence left-center seemed to be looking into my other digital camera on the tripod. This bird always keeps a keen eye on me when I walk the Amtrak platform most days for exercise (4 laps is a mile and a half).  There's a nest in a tree about 3/4th way down the platform.


UP 8077 leads a string of 16 engines on a move from Long Beach, California to North Little Rock, Arkansas at 11:53 a.m (UP 8077, 4569, 4542, 4213, 4130, 4119, 4143, 4061, 4586, 4062, 4154, 4288, 4293, 4220, 4266, 8397).


RIGHT-UP Heritage 1982 leads the daily North Little Rock to Pine Bluff local, the YNL75, at 12:13 p.m. It is followed by UP 1996, the SP Heritage unit and CP 8811, a bright red unit. This is the second time this week these two Heritage units have led this train. They've been going from North Little Rock to Pine Bluff to Jonesboro through Brinkley, AR, then south from Jonesboro to Pine Bluff to North Little Rock twice so far.







To see a Youtube video of the train going away from the camera (the sun was in my eyes looking the other way - the reason the still photos look ok looking east is that I took the photos in RAW format and adjusted for the reflected light), click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGM55RAHOB4
   My main interest is in still photography, so I put my digital video camera on a tripod and start it while I take the stills. Unfortunately, this time I started the video about 50 seconds too soon, so fast-forward the video 50 seconds to see the locomotives.

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