Amtrak northbound Texas Eagle, No. 22, arrived in Little Rock, AR at 11:35 p.m. Sunday night, March 27, 2011 and left at 11:48 p.m. nearly on schedule. What's special this night was that it had 10 Superliners and locomotive No. 500, which was a biodiesel locomotive. The train usually has 7 cars, but there was a special group of 220 who rode it from Fort Worth to Mineola, Texas on Sunday, after being in Fort Worth for a wine tasting festival, so the extra 3 Superliner cars were added. This same group of 220 rode the southbound train from Mineola to Fort Worth on Saturday, March 26. Mineola is about 2 hours east of Dallas on US 80. I took some pictures of the train at the Little Rock station as well as a couple of movies, which I have links to on this web page. It felt downright cold with drizzle and temperature around 40 degrees.

Consist of Texas Eagle No. 22 tonight (I think I got all the numbers right)
1) Amtrak locomotive 85
2) Amtrak locomotive 500
3) Superliner 39014
4) 32034
5) 37010
6) 33003
7) 31014
8) 34139
9) 34041
10) 34099
11) 35006
12) 34020


Stopped at 11:36 pm. Video of arrival at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW8dCxDqlJk


Boarding at 11:39 p.m.  Short video of people boarding at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy2DCGZNggQ


Zoomed in of people boarding from atop the spiral staircase on the east side of Union Station.


Wide shot showing more of the station and the wet and cold conditions.


Amtrak locomotive 500.

Here's a video of the train leaving at 11:48 p.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfuHjTQi31g

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