FN 5518-2. RAILROADS: GN 713 to BN 1786 to LRWN 103. LRWN kept No. 103 at their headquarters in Perry, Arkansas. I hadn't seen it on this train for over a year. There weren't that many UP trains today due to track work being done around the busy turnout that goes from Main 1 to Main 2 near Union Station, but I did manage to get a few. Only 3 locomotive roadnames today: UP, FXE and LRWN.
Locomotives today: UP 4884, 4878, 3861, 8476, 5103, 5878, 6152(SP), 5789, 1958, 1784 and 1686 *** FXE 4045 *** LRWN 500, 103.
Also included are my various old freight cars, including MKT 598 green hopper and a couple of old Missouri Pacific hoppers with the faded buzzsaw emblem. Also today a picture of the south side of Union Station (the front of the building) and a sunset and tracks.
MKT 598 green hopper.
UP 4884, 12:49 p.m. MSANL-17 Pretty sure this engine along with the 1996 moved the Big Boy out in California!!! (from my source)
UP 4878.
GTW 384531 Grand Trunk Western hycube.
UP 563164 yellow boxcar.
TR 585617 blue gondola.
MP 718108 hopper with the MoPac buzzsaw emblem.
CNW 178143 hopper, built 3-80.
Another old Missouri Pacific hopper, MP 706648 with the buzzsaw trademark, built 2-77.
UP 3861, 1:24 p.m. QLWNL-18
UP 8476.
WPHX 215 Ethylene Refrigeration Liquid tankcar.
Coming back from lunch at 3:18 p.m., this is the front of Union Station, the tracks being on the other side.
Welding was going on on Main 2 most of the afternoon.
FXE-Ferromex 4045, 3:49 p.m. northbound on Main 1. AEGAS-17
UP 5102.
Sunset at 5:13 p.m.
UP 5878, 5:24 p.m. CWBCD9-17
UP 6152, former SP.
UP 5789, the dpu, at 5:29 p.m.
Southbound headed by UP 1958 passes the northbound UP 5789 at 5:30 p.m.
UP 1958, 5:41 p.m. LWS53-18 (Hope Local)
UP 1958, 1784.
UP 1686.
WP 1209 Western Pacific hopper.
TR 150978 and 2 other TR boxcars.
BCOL 60292 BCRAIL boxcar.
TOE 3030, very shiny, was built new 5-80.
Another sunset scene, 5:39 p.m.
4 leaves were left on this tree from Fall.
LRWN 500 Bay Line heading to UP's North Little Rock yards, 6:04 p.m.
Coming around the curve. The LRWN uses former Rock Island track west of this point all the way to Perry and Danville, Arkansas. They run probably 3 or 4 trains a week.
The sun had set. I took a light reading off the ballast and locked the setting on my Nikon D5200 to get these shots.
LRWN 103, the first time I've seen it on this run in over a year. That doesn't mean it hasn't been run, I just didn't see it.
LRWN 103 and 500. I'd say the 103 has earned its keep over the years.
LWRN 103 is a GP9, Built 04/1957, FN 5518-2, RAILROADS: GN 713 to BN 1786 to LRWN 103
Here is LRWN 103 on January 9, 2007, 14 years ago. This is in Perry, Arkansas, still the headquarters of the Little Rock & Western.
LRWN has to manually throw the switch from UP's Main 1 to its railroad, that's what the truck is there for.
ARUX 30390 on the LRWN train. I hadn't seen this reporting mark before.