Saturday, June 7, 2008 at Brinkley,
Arkansas (half-way between Little Rock and Memphis
on I-40 in eastern Arkansas). Included today are (13 trains today): UP9544, 4398,
8591, 5209, 4377, 9201 ***
CSX 5375 *** CN 5793, 5360 *** UNKNOWN 8466 *** NS 9890, 2560. Two KRL
heavy haulers.
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10:18 a.m., the first of 12 trains today. Engine number obscured.
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UP 9544, 11:18 a.m. from the east.
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Taken through the windows of the old Railway Express office in the
Brinkley Depot Museu,, another southbound at 12:19 p.m. Train number 3
for the day. That's US Highway 70 at the crossing.
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UP 4398 taken through the ticket office window of the museum, at 12:37
p.m., train number 4 for the day. As I've stated before, trains go at
track speed past the depot (about 60 mph) and by the time I get my
camera turned on, they're passing the station (since I'm a volunteer at this museum, I
need to do other things besides watch trains at times, so I need to
stay inside most of the time). Lighting is also poor in the
mornings since the Jonesboro Sub runs north-south through Brinkley.
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Train number 5 today and I missed the engine numbers. I also took a
low-res Quicktime sound movie (.MOV - 10mb) of this train passing,
which you can see by clicking this link:
http://www.thundertrain.org/060708Brinkley-212pm-movie
10.mov
You can get a sense of the speed at which these intermodals pass here.
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2:38 p.m., UP 8591, train number 6.
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Visitors from Tulsa watching the train.
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Matched pair of CSX locomotives, headed by CSX 5375, 2:52 p.m., the 7th
train today.
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The Brinkley Depot Museum's unpaid director, Bill Sayger.
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CN 5793 and 5360 pass at 3:13 p.m., the 8th train today.
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The 9th train is coming off the Memphis Sub at 3:48 p.m., headed by UP
5209.
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NS 9890 and 8466 (NS, ex-LMS C40-8W, according to Phillipf22 of
Railspot), at 4:32 p.m., the
10th train. Taken from the
platform of the SP caboose
on display, sitting on the abandoned right of way of the Rock Island.
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Flowers in front of the museum.
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NS 2560, 4:38 p.m. , train number 11.
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UP 4377, 5:14 p.m. , the 12th train.
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UP 9201, the 13th train today, my final one. It's 5:46 p.m. Thirteen trains in an 8-hour period is
pretty good for this area.
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This train had 2 heavy haulers (KRL).
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Second one.