Saturday,
February 21, 2009 at Brinkley, Arkansas and North Little Rock. The day
started out cold and rainy, but sunshine broke through late in the day.
There were no trains at Brinkley from 9 a.m. until 2:08 p.m. then there
were four trains between 2:08 p.m. and 3:04 p.m. Best catch at Brinkley
was bright red Canadian Pacific 8549. Two good catches at North Little
Rock's UP yards were LRWN Alco 102, now lettered VLIX and UP 4141, the
Bush unit, which spent the past week at Jenks Shops, apparently being
retouched with paint. Also, a colorful sunrise and a woodpecker.
Included today: 1) UP 3963, 4495, 4702, 4925, 4141 2) Canadian Pacific 8549 3) Four CSX blue boxcars in a row 4) Rock Island hopper at end of train 5) Woodpecker at Dagmar Wildlife Refuge
LEFT-Dark, cold and rainy morning at Brinkley - temperature 43 degrees. RIGHT-Looking south from the depot.
LEFT-Almost
missed UP 3963 on the daily UPS-Z train at 2:08 p.m. RIGHT-Another
train approaching at 2:23 p.m. from the north. This is the Jonesboro
Sub of the UP (former SSW).
LEFT-UP 4495 and CSX something or other at 2:24 p.m. RIGHT-UP 4702 with a mixed at 2:35 p.m.
LEFT-Four
matching CSX blue boxcars on the end of the train. RIGHT-It cleared off
quickly and another train approaches at 3:04 p.m.
LEFT-UP 4925 and Canadian Pacific 8549 at 3:04 p.m. RIGHT-Rock Island blue hopper.
LEFT-Purple
ground flowers next to the tracks at Brinkley. RIGHT-At North Little
Rock now. This is Little Rock & Western 102, now labeled as VLIX.
Anyone have any idea what its fate is?
UP
4141, 5:46 p.m. in the yards in North Little Rock. This unit has spent
the past week at Jenks Shops for, I'm told, patch-up painting.
LEFT-Here's the sunrise I took on my way to Brinkley. RIGHT-Saw
this woodpecker at Dagmar-Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, about
10 miles west of Brinkley on February 21, on my way to the Brinkley
Depot Museum or the day. This is the area where the Ivory-bill
Woodpecker was supposedly sighted in 2004 and a few searchers from
Cornell University of New York are still in this area trying to verify
the Ivory-bill's existence.
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