KCS Belle #4814 led (alone) a very sharp-looking new tank car, hopper train past Union Station in Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday night, January 30, 2015 right before midnight (right after Amtrak's Texas Eagle left the station).  I could smell the new paint and they all looked shiny and reflected the platform lights like a mirror. Since they were so new, all the wheels were perfectly rounded so you could barely hear them moving - they just glided smoothly along the track. These new hoppers and tank cars were built in January 2015 with paint applied at Paragould, Arkansas.  A couple of the cars were SHPX 214637 and NASX 4338.  It had 120 cars. The front of the train passed at 11:52 p.m. and the end passed at 11:58 p.m. I'd estimate the speed at 10 mph. The train's ID was MPGNL-27, was 6,386 feet long and weighted 4,256 tons.


KCS  4814 leading the new tank-hopper train past the station at 11:52 p.m. The train was the MPGNL-27, Paragould, Arkansas to North Little Rock manifest, 120 cars, 6,386 feet long.


KCS 4814 was the only locomotive on the train. Note how shiny and clean the tank cars are.


SHPX 214637.












Paint applied at Paragould, built date Jan 2015.


NASX 4338 hopper.


End of train, 11:58 p.m.

You may contact me by email - thundertrain@gmail.com - or by using this CONTACT FORM  - If you use the contact form, please be sure to type your email address correctly in the form, otherwise I can't respond. Also, please tell me the name or date of the webpage you're viewing so I can better answer your questions. You will also be asked to enter a sequence of letters and numbers to help me try to avoid spam.

My Weather and Scenery website: http://www.trainweather.com/

Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ken.ziegenbein

 If you want to view more of my train pictures over the years, click: http://www.thundertrain.org/sunday.html
 
 You can also find my railroad pictures on my Facebook Railroad page: https://www.facebook.com/KenZsRailroadPhotos     
"LIKE" this page and you'll be notified of any new photos I upload.
 
If you want to be notified of my train pictures via email, I'll add you to my notification list. Send those requests to:
thundertrain@gmail.com