Saturday, May 9, 2009 - National Train Day - at the station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Helping celebrate were people from Radio Disney, who put up a booth in front of the Amtrak station and had live broadcasts on the local Radio Disney station (99.5 FM) and also had music from Radio Disney's XM Satellite Radio channel. You could register for a round trip on Amtrak's Texas Eagle to Chicago. They were also  here last year on Train Day. Of course, since they were here from 9-noon, the Amtrak office was closed, but they knew that ahead of time. They told me that Amtrak pays Disney to come to their stations for events, something I didn't know.

Included today:

1)Blackberries
2) Radio Disney people and display for National Train Day
3) UP 5230, 5492
4) Pigeon of the day

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LEFT-Blackberries were beginning to ripen near trackside. RIGHT-Radio Disney set up their display about 9 a.m. in front of the Amtrak ticket office.


RIGHT-Two small boys and their mother waiting for a freight train.


LEFT-Grass on the Amtrak siding. We've had a lot of rain recently, and are several inches above normal for this time of year, so everything is lush. RIGHT-UP 5230 arrives at 10:46 a.m.


LEFT-Anticipating the train. The two on the left are part of our regular railfanning group. The lady on the right said she comes here often and knows all about the signals and what yellow/ green and red mean. The two boys love trains. RIGHT-Radio Disney can be seen to the left with the train to the right.



Here are two short sound videos of this scene  in .MOV format (Quicktime):

http://www.thundertrain.org/050909RadioDisneyMOV-28.mov

http://www.thundertrain.org/050909RadioDisneyMOV-30.mov


Registering to win a Chicago trip on Amtrak.


LEFT-Another train arrives at 11:28 a.m. headed by UP 5492. RIGHT-This intermodal had a dpu, UP 7680.


RIGHT-My pigeon of the day :-)

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