Saturday, April 26, 2008 at Brinkley, Arkansas. I took advantage of a slow order of trains passing the depot in the afternoon to try some different photographic angles. On most days, by the time I hear the locomotive's horn at the crossing just north of the depot,  it's passing the station so I just get the shot through the window. Included today: CSX 7629, 7870 *** UP 9657, 6468, 8558, 4974, 4838 *** Columbus & Greenville boxcar *** NEGRO De HUMO - NEGROMEX hopper ENDX 455325 (I've never seen this name on a hopper).



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CSX 7629, 9:07 a.m. They were still running track speed at this time (60 mph).


UP 9657, 10:46 a.m. They had started the slow order.




ENDX 455325 NEGRO De HUMO NEGROMEX hopper. From Trainorders.com and Railspot: The owner of that hopper car is GATX de Mexico SA de CV and it is assigned to Negro de Humo Negromex which is a company in Mexico which deals in carbon black among other products. Also, from Jim Satterwhite: "ENDX is the Mexican arm of GATX Leasing." From Rick Duncan: "Looks like a carbon black supplier or some sort of energy company? This from a Google translation of one of the references found when searching on "negro de humo negromex".  "Negro de humo" is literally "black smoke." - BTW, your query on Trainorders is already indexed by Google!"


CSX 7870, 11:50 a.m. from the east. Mr. Otten from the Arkansas Railroad Club was here at this time.






At the same time the CSX train was going around the curve from Memphis, UP 6468 showed up from the north at 11:52 a.m.


Passing.


They were working north of Brinkley from noon till 4 p.m. replacing ties. At 4:18 p.m. UP 8558 showed up with an intermodal.  I was sitting on the ground, trying to get the flowers and green grass in the photo, sort of a gopher's view (in fact, the field across the track is full of gopher holes).


A bread and butter train for UP - UPS trailers.


UP 4974, 4:29 p.m.




Columbus & Greenville boxcar, HS 30967.


UP 4838 from the other side of the Brinkley depot at 4:44 p.m. Lots of flagged UP locomotives today.