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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![](Brinkley042608csx7629-907am-1R.jpg)
CSX 7629, 9:07 a.m. They were still running track speed at this time
(60 mph).
![](Brinkley042608upxxxx-1046am-6R.jpg)
UP 9657, 10:46 a.m. They had started the slow order.
![](Brinkley042608up9657-1046am-7R.jpg)
![](Brinkley042608ndnhopper-8R.jpg)
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!"
![](Brinkley042608csx7870-1150am-11R.jpg)
CSX 7870, 11:50 a.m. from the east. Mr. Otten from the Arkansas
Railroad Club was here at this time.
![](Brinkley042608-12R.jpg)
![](Brinkley042608-ottens-1151am-13R.jpg)
![](Brinkley042608up6468-1152am-15R.jpg)
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.
![](Brinkley042608passing-1154am-17R.jpg)
Passing.
![](Brinkley042608up8558--418pm-30R.jpg)
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).
![](Brinkley042608upstrailers-32R.jpg)
A bread and butter train for UP - UPS trailers.
![](CAL-Brinkley042608up4974-429pm-33R.jpg)
UP 4974, 4:29 p.m.
![](Brinkley042608-34R.jpg)
![](Brinkley042608candgboxhs30967-35R.jpg)
Columbus & Greenville boxcar, HS 30967.
![](Brinkley042608up4838JPG-444pm-37R.jpg)
UP 4838 from the other side of the Brinkley depot at 4:44 p.m. Lots of
flagged UP locomotives today.