On Monday morning, August 4, 2014, the southbound Texas Eagle, Amtrak 21, was almost 5 hours late getting to Little Rock, Arkansas. Reason? Another engine failure, this time it was BOTH locomotives that failed just as the train was leaving Chicago Sunday afternoon. That delayed Chicago departure by 5 hours, so instead of getting to Little Rock at 3:02 a.m., it got here shortly before 8 a.m. Here are a few pictures of it arriving, taken from under the Locust Street overpass as it was exiting the main Union Pacific yards in North Little Rock at 7:52 a.m, and as it was departing Union Station Little Rock at 8:10 a.m. (I got caught in rush hour traffic, so it took me 18 minutes to go the couple of miles to the station.)


Texas Eagle 21 southbound ready to go under the Locust Street overpass in North Little Rock, 7:52 a.m. Monday August 4, 2014, nearly 5 hours late. Amtrak locomotive no. 14 headed the train, replacing the 2 locomotives that failed Sunday afternoon as the train left Chicago. The bright sunshine is a rarity for this train here in Little Rock as it's usually pitch black when it arrives at its normal time of  3:02 a.m., when even the birds are sleeping




The dining car is the one under the signals. I imagine it was full of patrons having a tasty breakfast cooked to order by the Amtrak chef that gets on in Chicago. I'm sure the 100+ passengers were not happy about being 5 hours late though. The train should have been almost to Longview, Texas by this time.




The Eagle was about to leave Union Station Little Rock when I got there at 8:10 a.m. It took me 18 minutes to get here in rush hour traffic. It's normally only a 5 minute drive.


Leaving the station at 8:10 a.m.


I didn't have time to set up my normal station shots.




One train 5 minutes late, the other 20 minutes early.

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