Here's a few 'catch-up' photos of train at Union Station in Little Rock, taken on January 25 and 30, 2015. There's both day and night trains, including the BNSF local with both an ex- Santa Fe Warbonnet and blue and yellow locomotive in the lead. These could almost be considered BNSF heritage locomotives since they are in excellent shape paint-wise. The BNSF local runs a circular trip from Memphis taking UP's directional south ex-Cotton Belt from Memphis to Brinkley to Pine Bluff, then north to Little Rock, where I understand it serves the Port Of Little Rock on the Arkansas River, then goes past Union Station, crosses the Baring Cross bridge into North Little Rock, backs onto the Little Rock & Western tracks to switch off some it it's cars to the sidings in west Little Rock at  Pulaski, then goes back north into North Little Rock then heads north to Bald Knob then east to Memphis again. It almost always passes Union Station about the time the Texas Eagle arrives around midnight every night.


Streetcar 408 eastbound on Markham Street in front of the Capital Hotel Friday January 30.




Little Rock & Western  going from the UP yard in North Little Rock to west Little Rock and Perry, AR.


LRWN 1541 and 2017, 1:58 p.m.




UP 3583, 2:09 p.m. QLWNL-30


UP 4319.


MP 15064 flatcar with crane.


Back in time to January 25 for the next few. UP 7382, 11:52 a.m. YNL75-25


UP 3732.


CNW 175597 old hopper.


UP 2062 and 1949, 12:16 p.m. Jan 25.


CNS 437066 hopper.


MKT 545 green hopper.


MKT 515 green hopper.


CNW 178136 green hopper.


MP 706842 eagle hopper.


Still Jan 25, UP 5461, 12:29 p.m. IMQCSR-25 (Intermodal-Mesquite-Canal St.-Reposition)


UP 8848.


Dark clouds, 12:35 p.m.


UP 4718, 12:41 p.m. MNPPB-23


UP 9575.


SSW 7889 Cotton Belt rusted hopper.


KCS 720141 coil car.




It's now January 30 again, NS 9805, 9:31 p.m. QSHNL-30


UP 8607.


KCSM 4514.


KCSM 1563.


WP 38172 boxcar with feather.




MP 782144 boxcar with the MoPac buzzsaw.


SMW 540021 ex-Wisconsin Central Ltd boxcar.


9:44 p.m.


UP 8557, 9:46 p.m. UP 8557 was the KLDMN. KLDMN-29.




Red and green signals southbound, 10:01 p.m. Jan 30.


A southbound at 10:03 p.m.


UP 6441, 10:03 p.m. GSEHNA-29 (Grain-Elkhart, IL-Nashville, AR)


UP 8630.


UP 8630.


UP 6484.


Nice to see an ex-Santa Fe warbonnet in good shape these days. This is BNSF 549. Although the Santa Fe decal is still on the front, the side has BNSF. It's 10:34 p.m. Jan 30 and the train is the BNSF local (as explained in my lead paragraph).


BNSF 549.




BNSF, ex-Santa Fe 3164.




BNSF local backing to switch cars in west Little Rock (Pulaski siding) at 10:47 p.m. This is a quick operation. As soon as it passes the station, it goes on the Baring Crosss bridge then backs to the siding. The switch from UP's Main 1 to this LRWN siding is done manually and there's a person in a truck that throws the switch. This train will go back north in a couple of hours and head back to Memphis.


A northbound UP train will soon pass the BNSF local. You can see the lights of this train on the tracks to left of the BNSF train.  The UP train was washed out with bright lights when it actually passed me so the first shot I have of it is when it's next to me.


UP 8763. This was the second unit. I missed the lead unit. ZLDYC-29






BNSF 7282 passing Amtrak's Texas Eagle on the siding at 11:33 p.m. UP symbol QD1GIJ-29 (Dayton, TX-Galesburg. IL) trackage rights train


BNSF 7821.


BNSF 7634.

 
The BNSF local with engine 549 returning north at 11:50 p.m. after picking up new cars in west Little Rock.


A northbound UP train with KCS power is starting to pass the local at 11:50 p.m.


KCS 4814 leading an all-new 120-car tank and hopper train, 11:52 p.m. More photos of this train at this link:
http://thundertrain.org/new-tanks-hoppers-013015.html

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