I caught one Valentine's Day train at Little Rock Feb 14, just before the rain ended, and several more trains the next day, Saturday February 15. There were locomotives lettered for UP, CSXT, NS, BNSF and CP. I've included my usual old and new freight cars that I thought were interesting, including good old Chessie the Cat on a CSXT hycube, Grand Trunk Western lettering on a GTW hycube boxcar, a Columbus & Greenville boxcar, and "Expressway For Industry" hopper. One car had a full side panorama of an outer space scene saying "Your Planet is Nekst" (spelling 'Next' wrong).

Locomotives today: UP 5681, 6156 (ex-SP), 6724, 4666, 4345, 9732, 9589, 8567, 4896, 5975, 7489, 4617, 4533, 4741, 4276, 3883, 4114, 6546, 4775, 4165 *** NS 9599 *** CSXT 433, 5213, 4722 *** BNSF 6536, 661 (Santa Fe faded with paint peeling Warbonnet), 1084, 1048 *** CP 9567.


Valentine's Day 2014, BNSF 7591 northbound in light rain at 2:05 p.m. OSJEE-13 (Ore-St. James, LA-Gateway Yard/E. St. Louis)


CSXT 9004.


Empty oil tankers. Not exactly a Valentine scene, but oh well.


BNSF 6360, the dpu.


This and the rest of the photos were taken Saturday, February 15, 2014. UP 5681 got a new set of wings....lol.


UP 6724, the dpu of the empty coal train.


UP 4666, 2:32 p.m. AARAS-14 (Auto-Arlington, TX-Alton & Southern)


UP 4345.


CSXT 180573 hycube.


CSXT 180621 newly painted hycube.


CSXT 180865 Chessie System with the cat hycube.


NYC 237852 Conrail hycube.


'Your planet's nekst' alien space scene. I assume it should be 'next'. UP 79028 gondola.


GACX 15250 ConAgra Mills hopper.


CSXT 433, 2;47 p.m. QLWNL-15 (Priority Manifest-Longview, TX-N. Little Rock)


NS 9599.


UP 9589, 9732.


CRDX 200004 new tank car.


CNW 175526 Employee Owned hopper, blt 5-78.


MKT 551 hopper, probably formerly green.


Lots of flatcars.


UP 8567, 3:20 p.m. ZYCMXE-13 (Premium Intermodal-Yard Center, IL-Laredo, TX)


UP 8567, 4896.


Blue things on a flatcar, FTTX 974916.


Blue frames.


GTW 384516 boxcar with Grand Trunk Western lettering still seen.


This train was a mixed train with stacks at the end.




UP 5975 moving from Main 1 to Main 2, 3:29 p.m. This switch gets LOTS of use everyday.


UP 5975, 3:30 p.m.  YNL17-15 (14:30 X-Haul)


UP 4533, 4617 and 7489.


BTCX 4123 gondola with sand.


NOKL 570278 Big Blue boxcar, blt 7-95.


NOKL 536057 boxcar.


KCS 720197 black coil car.


More flats.


UP 4741, 4:02 p.m. QEGNL-13 (Priority Manifest-Eagle Pass-N. Little Rock)


UP 4276.


CSXT 247602 Family Lines System SCL/LN hopper.


HS 30933 Columbus & Greenville boxcar.


HS 3703 Golden Triangle Railroad boxcar.


BNSF 6536, 4:08 p.m. looking into the sun. It's passing the train on Main 1.


BNSF 6536, on an empty oil train northbound. OSNES-14 (Ore-St. James, LA-E. St. Louis)


BNSF 661, former Santa Fe with the Warbonnet colors. Getting pretty faded.




CP 9567 red Canadian Pacific locomotive was the dpu.


The other train had stopped as oil train passed.


Another BNSF northbound headed by BNSF 1084, 4:25 p.m. Trackage rights train, BNSF symbol: H DETMEM1-13 (Manifest-Dayton, TX-Memphis, TN)


BNSF 1048.


As happens here once in a while, another train is passing on the next track over, Main 1, with the train on Main 2 blocking it, at 4:28 p.m.


The left shadow is me, Ken Z, and the other shadow is Greg Davis, who was watching trains today. Greg has great shots of the Arkansas State Capitol, the LED lighted highway bridges over the Arkansas River and many more.


CSXT 5213, 4:53 p.m. YPB71-14 (1559 X-Haul) Departed NLR at 8 AM on the 14th, arrived back at NLR 17:08 on the 15th!


CSXT 4722.


UP 3883 and 4114.


UP 6546, one of 8 locomotives on this train, obviously transferring from Pine Bluff or Biddle to the North Little Rock yards.


??TS 2642 Expressway For Industry hopper,


UP 4165, 5:07 p.m. AEGAS-13 (Auto-Eagle Pass, TX-Alton & Southern)


UP 4775 on a southbound stack train. There's been more and more southbound stacks/intermodals recently. Anyone know the reason? Up to now, most stack trains were northbound, not southbound past Union Station. ZYCMXC-13




February 15 sunset.


This was taken Friday February 14 of Amtrak 22, the northbound Texas Eagle. It arrived at Union Station in Little Rock a few minutes early at 11:25 p.m. Time of the photo was 11:29 p.m.


Zoomed in closeup of the boarding passengers heading to St Louis and Chicago.  The counterpart of Amtrak 22 is the southbound Texas Eagle No. 21, which is scheduled here at 3:02 a.m.

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