A "New" day...New year, new hoppers, new black tank cars, new white tank cars, new yellow baretable flatcars passing Union Station in Little Rock, AR on Sunday, January 1, 2012.

Included today:
1) UP 5508, 3480, 4360, 6835, 6430
2) CSX 681
3) My pigeon friend
4) SHQX 1305 and other new hoppers
5) DOWX 49205 and other new white single dome tank cars
6) CTCX 733667 and other new black tank cars
7) Baretable train including new DTTX 765988


My pigeon friend at the station in Little Rock eating something from UP Main 2.


Giving me the eye.


Tracks glistening in the late afternoon sun looking to the west from the platform at Little Rock at 3:32 p.m.


UP 5508, 3:34 p.m. at Milepost CPX 347-S Amtrak Station, known by the dispatchers as North UD.


CSX 681.


SHQX 1305 and other new hoppers.


No graffiti, no scratches, just new shiny hoppers reflecting sunlight.




CEFX 312894 new hopper. These were heading northbound.


New white DOWX 49205 and other single dome tank cars.


New shiny black tank cars.


CTCX 733667 and other black single dome tank cars.


Cool shot of this string a new tank cars zoomed in.


New wheelsets. These new cars glided past very smoothly, no flat wheels, no squeaks, muted sound.




UP 3480, 3:40 p.m.


UP 4360.


Trainload of baretables. These haul containers on stack trains.




New baretable DTTX 765988.


Those 6 yellow baretables were new.


Blue baretables, one being BRAN 6089.


UP 6835 heading a southbound loaded coal train at 4:09 p.m. The train was crossing from UP Main 1 to UP Main 2.


Cropped from the previous image showing UP 6835.


UP 6835 passing me.


UP 6430, dpu.


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