(Note....I didn't create a clickable to enlarge format for this page, whereby I have smaller images which you click to enlarge. Instead I just uploaded all the 28 photos in my larger, 1,000 pixel wide format, which should download in 6-20 seconds or so if you have broadband. If any of you want me to also upload those small images, let me know - Ken Z)
Included today:
1) BNSF/BN 2934 green
2) BNSF/SF 512 Warbonnet
3) BNSF 2042 blue
4) UP 5003,. 4773, 1574
5) Cyclops eye graffiti
6) MKT 553 green hopper
7) MKT 16338 red gondola
8) MKT 4366 hopper
9) AOK 6476 flatcar with wheelsets
10) HS 3856 Valdosta Southern Railroad Co. boxcar
11) Harlem Globetrotter bus with Little Rock Streetcar 408 in River Market
12) 1910 and 2011 6th and Main scene in Little Rock
13) Bennett's Military Supply 140th anniversary
A rainbow of colors on the BNSF local today, which operates from Pine Bluff to Little Rock to Memphis and does switching at the Port of Little Rock and other places. This local has operated with these three colorful locomotives now for a couple of weeks and usually does its switching here in Little Rock late at night, but today operated in daylight. It's headed by BNSF/Santa Fe 512 in faded Warbonnet colors, BNSF 2042, one of the blue BNSF units, and BNSF/BN 2934 green unit. It is backing up here to leave and pick up cars on Little Rock & Western's line in west Little Rock. It's 10:19 a.m. Saturday, February 12, 2011.
BNSF/BN 2934, BNSF 2041 and Santa Fe 512.
Backing around the curve on the Little Rock & Western's tracks. UP's Main 1 and Main 2 are in the foreground. I'm standing on the Amtrak platform, with other railfans.
Still has the original Santa Fe Warbonnet paint and Santa Fe emblem, but quite faded. Even the BNSF lettering is faded. Still nice to see though and lucky we have it in our back yard at the moment.
Leftover snow from last Wednesday. We had officially 6 inches here in Little Rock but there was officially 2 feet in parts of northwest Arkansas. Temperatures rose into the 50s today, a lot warmer than the teens and 20s Wednesday and Thursday. Overnight low here on Thursday morning was 10-12 degrees, with Fayetteville, in northwest Arkansas, falling to -18 degrees (that's 18 degrees BELOW zero) at that time.
Still backing around the sharp curve.
UP 5003, 10:41 a.m.
The Cyclops eye car.
Water from snow melt, but to me it looks like a shadow of a giant beast.
Runby of UP inspection truck, 69771.
UP 4773, 11:02 a.m.
UP 1574, last of the long consist.
MKT 553 green hopper.
MKT 16338 red Katy gondola.
MKT 4366 hopper.
AOK 6476 flatcar with wheelsets.
HS 3856, Valdosta Southern Railroad Company boxcar.
Ice still remained in front of Union Station.
Piles of ice that were graded off the road a few days ago.
Harlem Globetrotters bus passing through the River Market on Tuesday, February 8, 2011, following streetcar 408. They had a performance here at Verizon Arena this evening.
Parade of streetcars and buses.
1910 photo taken at the Little Rock, AR intersection of 6th and Main, looking north. It was sent to me by Stephen Taylor via Shorpy Historic Photo Archive-Vintage Fine Art Prints website, Photo by Dave. See
