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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LEFT-10:18 a.m., the first of 12 trains today. Engine number obscured.
RIGHT-UP 9544, 11:18 a.m. from the east.
LEFT-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. RIGHT-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.
LEFT-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.
RIGHT-2:38 p.m., UP 8591, train number 6.
RIGHT-Visitors from Tulsa watching the train.
LEFT-Matched pair of CSX locomotives, headed by CSX 5375, 2:52 p.m.,
the 7th train today.
LEFT-The Brinkley Depot Museum's unpaid director, Bill Sayger. RIGHT-CN
5793 and 5360 pass at 3:13 p.m., the 8th train today.
The 9th train is coming off the Memphis Sub at 3:48 p.m., headed by UP
5209.
RIGHT-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.
LEFT-Flowers in front of the museum. RIGHT-NS 2560, 4:38 p.m. , train
number 11.
UP 4377, 5:14 p.m. , the 12th train.
RIGHT-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.
LEFT-This train had 2 heavy haulers (KRL). RIGHT-Second one.