Amtrak Texas Eagle, #22, had a large number of passengers board at Little Rock, Arkansas around midnight on Friday night, March 15, 2013.  This was partly due to it being the start of Spring break. All the passengers were individual family units, no large groups, this was just average train riders.  The Eagle was 10 minutes early getting to the station and left for St Louis and Chicago just a few minutes late. The Little Rock Amtrak station has only one agent on duty at train-time and he was swamped on this night. This station does not have the official Amtrak volunteer program like other stations do on the Texas Eagle route. Of course, since Little Rock is an Amtrak crew base, others helped out. Here are some photos, some taken from my cell phone, others with my Sony A-77 digital. As always, I try to keep my distance from passengers - I use my zoom lens when I can.


10:35 p.m., the waiting room was already filling up. The Eagle doesn't leave until 11:39 p.m. The office is open 10:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.  The northbound Texas Eagle is scheduled to arrive at 11:31 p.m. and it actually arrived tonight at 11:20 p.m. The other Texas Eagle, southbound #21, arrives at 3:10 a.m.




11:20 p.m. The Eagle arrived early and the line was already down the ramp and curved around the parked cars.  Note that the lead locomotive was Amtrak 66, one of the Amtrak heritage units.






Checking e-tickers.




Cell phone shot.


From opposite side.  Not a bad turnout of train riders for a small city like Little Rock in the middle of the night. There were close to a hundred boarding.




11:33 p.m. The actual boarding began.


Richard, the Amtrak agent, hauling the checked baggage aboard at 11:34 p.m.




A UP freight passes at 11:43 p.m. For a video of the Eagle leaving, click on the photo above or the link below:
http://youtu.be/bbS7zvwrHqA


Claim checks for the baggage Richard handled tonight.

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