Amtrak Texas Eagle 22 at Little Rock, Arkansas Tuesday night, December 23, 2014, 11:50 p.m. Good crowd of passengers tonight. I also caught a couple of freights passing the Amtrak station (Union Station). Then I took a quick trip to Union Pacific's Jenks Shops in North Little Rock after midnight and got a photo of UP 6938 Centennial on display and the tarped UP 4141 Bush unit. Earlier tonight there was a news bulletin saying that former President George H. W. Bush, the Senior Bush (President 41) was taken to a Houston, Texas hospital with breathing problems. UP 4141 is the Bush Library locomotive and will eventually be taken to Texas when needed by the Bush family and the library. It was named for the senior Bush.


Starting to line up for the northbound Texas Eagle at 11:39 p.m. Lots more inside the waiting room.


BNSF local heading to UP's North Little Rock yard at 11:42 p.m. from the sidings on the Little Rock & Western at Pulaski (west Little Rock).


BNSF 539, 11:42 p.m.


BNSF 3124/


BNSF 539. I used a sensitivity setting on my Sony A77 of ISO 16,000 for these bright shots. Too grainy to enlarge but ok on most computer screens.


Amtrak Texas Eagle arriving at 11:43 p.m. December 23.


The passenger line has grown.


11:43 p.m.


11:46 p.m. Locomotive 69 headed the train.


11:46 p.m.






Nice crowd of passengers getting on for a Christmas trip, probably to St Louis and Chicago.




Green signal on the Amtrak siding at 11:50 p.m.


Ready to depart, 11:51 p.m.


Leaving at 11:56 p.m., just a few minutes late.


CSXT 8409, 12:06 a.m. December 24.


CSXT 8409.


CSXT 7311.


UP 6938, 12:23 a.m. December 24, 2014 on display at UP's Jenks Shops in North Little Rock. The Arkansas State Capitol is to the left.


Jenks Shops in the middle of the night (12:23 a.m. December 24).


UP 4141 under a new tarp.


Downtown Little Rock taken from Jenks Shops, 12:24 a.m. on 12/24/14. The building with the green Christmas tree lit up by putting green shades on windows and leaving the lights on is the Bank of America building.

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