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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LEFT-CSX 7629, 9:07 a.m. They were still running track speed at this
time (60 mph). RIGHT-UP 9657,
10:46 a.m. They had started the slow order.
RIGHT-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.
RIGHT-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.
LEFT-Passing. RIGHT-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).
LEFT-A bread and butter train for UP - UPS trailers. RIGHT-UP 4974,
4:29 p.m.
RIGHT-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.