Trainwise, my shot of the day was NS 1069, the Virginian Heritage unit, after dark at 8 p.m. I also caught a transformer on a heavy-hauler and saw CMPX 251109 Aware Resa hopper. At first I though this might be graffiti but it looks like some kind of large barcode. What is this?
Some of the ice-covered power lines in my neighborhood.
About to cross the Broadway Bridge over the Arkansas River into Little Rock. Note the lack of cars. This is usually full of cars in early afternoons.
Union Station to the left, 2:19 p.m.
Parking lot of Union Station. Yes, people were still at work there (the station is very active in the daytime with lots of businesses renting office space).
I decided to go on the balcony for my first train shot since it was still freezing rain going on. Looks like a winter-train-wonderland doesn't it? This is looking east.
UP 4063 with the US Flag, 2:58 p.m., my first train.
UP 4063. (MSANL-03)
Notice the transformer on the heavy-hauler flat.
Cropped and enlarged picture of KRL 48018 hauler with the transformer. (Transformer from Mexico-Interchanged to the UP at Pt. Laredo. Going the CSXT at E. St. Louis
Final destination shows "Stecity, VA" Steel City? Shipper: Allegheny Power Service)
ATSF 350285 Santa Fe hopper, in really good shape.
RCLX 169230 yellow CNW hopper.
CMPX 251109 Aware Resa hopper. At first I though this might be graffiti but it looks like some kind of large barcode. What is this? (Originated San Antonio, destination Genoa, NE, last contained Sand. Shipper: Preferred Pipeline)
Down on the platform now, here's UP 8002, 3:17 p.m. (QLWNL-04 (Priority Manifest-Longview, TX-N. Little Rock)
CSXT 8099.
Tankcars, red signals and icy trees.
Icy ramp to the platform.
Train approaches at 3:25 p.m.
UP 1932 and 1970, 3:25 p.m. (LWS53-04 Hope Local )
GMTX 2264.
Amtrak Little Rock sign with ice cycles.
Icy fence on the platform.
A cold pack of Camels.
Train approaching at 3:55 p.m. You can see the lights reflected on the rails.
NS 9457, 3:56 p.m. (YPB71-04 1559 X-Haul )
NS 9457 and UP 9695, 3:57 p.m.
UP 6766, 4:08 p.m. (ILXMNX-31)
NS 9139.
UP 8823, 4:23 p.m. (MNPPB-02)
UP 8823 and 4577, 4:24 p.m.
UP 1764, 4:31 p.m. (LWS54-04 Hope Local )
UP 1793.
UP 5876, 5:09 p.m. (CCDWB9-01 (Coal-Cordero Mine-White Bluff, AR)
UP 6132, former SP.
Cutting ice-laden tree limbs from a tree in the west parking lot of Union Station because it was hitting one of the power lines going to the station. It's 5:17 p.m.
Tree before trimming.
Tree after trimming.
UP 9769, one of seven locomotives going to Biddle Yard in south Little Rock, 5:17 p.m. (ENLPBM-04
Arkansas State Capitol through the icy trees.
BNSF oil train, 5:42 p.m. northbound.
BNSF 1053, 5:42 p.m. (4UH3MDJ-04 Trackage rights train. BNSF symbol UGPMMNU4-04 (This is alphabet soup:})
On the UP at North Yard, TX to Walsh Jct. IL)
BNSF 1053.
BNSF 1053 and 4930.
BNSF 8961.
Oil tankers.
Moon at 6:57 p.m.
The oil train that has NS 1069 finally approaches at 7:54 p.m.
NS 1022 leads the train. The Amtrak platform lights are not turned on until the station agent gets here about 10 p.m. so I needed to use a flash to get these night shots. Had the lights been on, like in the past, I could get the shots ok without flash. (OSJER-03)
NS 1069, the Virginian heritage unit. was the dpu of this oil train, facing backward. The car to the right is the buffer car between the locomotive and oil tankers.
NS 1069.
NS 1069 from the front. That reflective yellow tape on locomotives sure stands out in flash photography, doesn't it.
I got this shot of a streetcar while I was going home at 8:13 a.m. Central Arkansas Transit has to run the streetcars 24 hours when there's freezing rain to keep the ice cleared off the 600 volt overhead wires.
The overhead wires at the trolley barn looked pretty clear of ice.
Night shot of a streetlight through an icy tree.