Amtrak Texas Eagle No. 21 southbound to Texas arriving at Union Station in Little Rock at 11:04 a.m., 8 hours late due to a delay getting out of Chicago. I'm taking this from the balcony of Union Station. As you can see, with all the rain we've had this spring and summer, grass and trees are lush green.
Amtrak locomotive 196 led the Eagle today. It's passing UP 8615, which had stopped to allow the Texas Eagle to enter the station tracks, 11:05 a.m.
The baggage truck is taking luggage to the Superliner coach/baggage car. There was no dedicated baggage car on the train today.
You can see the raindrops in front of the Superliner's windows.
Passengers boarding in the rain, 11:06 a.m.
Little Rock is also an Amtrak crew base, so crews change and is a smoke stop where passengers can de-train to smoke if they need to. There's usually 7 Superliner cars on the Eagles, sometimes 8 on days it connects in San Antonio to the Sunset Limited. There's always only 1 locomotive.
From ground level.
The front of the train at 11:19 a.m. It was starting to leave.
Now I'm going back about an hour to 10:13 a.m. when I first arrived. Here's a southbound UP freight in the rain.
UP 5181 and 4895, 10:14 a.m.
UP 4895.
BNSF 4180, 10:23 a.m.
BNSF 6520.
UP 5826, 10:30 a.m.
UP 4880.
On the Amtrak siding.
UP 8615, 10:53 a.m.
UP 8615, CSXT 7907 and UP 6370, ex-SP.
Part of our railfan today.