Here's
some rainy-day train photos taken at Union Station in Little Rock,
Arkansas on Sunday, February 21, 2010. It got so dark about 10:30 a.m.
that some floodlights turned on.
Included today:
1) 4536, 3862, 4171, 4727, 5722, 7083, UP/SP 6290, UP 2482, 2285, 2460
2) GMTX 2156
3) Ferromex 4602
4) MKT green hopper 544
5) Baretables mid-freight
6) Dark rain clouds and rainy, steamy scenes
7) Gulls flying to Hooters
8) Three stray dogs on platform
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UP 4536, 8:48 a.m.
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UP
3862, 9:00 a.m. I left the camera on it's automatic setting
and didn't lighten this scene because I wanted to show how dark it
was getting. There was thunder in the distance.
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UP 3862, 9:01 a.m.
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Yellow signals tell a southbound is ready to pass.
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Small dog pack.
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Dogs going down the Amtrak ramp.
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UP 4171, un-enhanced photo, at 10:12 a.m.
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As
you'll see in some of the next photos, the platform lights turned on
soon after this photo was taken since it got so dark. It's 10:13 a.m.
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UP 4171 on the Pine Bluff local, YNL75.
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GMTX 2156, Ferromex 4602.
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UP 4727.
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MKT green hopper, 544.
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Baretables in the midst of the train.
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The bottom is about to fall out of these clouds. I missed a lightning bolt by 2 seconds. Temperature was 47 degrees.
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The floodlights turned on at 10:34 a.m.
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The lights turned off temporarily.
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Taken from the upper deck of the station looking southeast toward downtown Little Rock.
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UP 5722, 10:52 a.m.
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UP 5722 heading a loaded coal train, 10:53 a.m.
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Wet coal!!
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UP 7083, UP/SP 6290 are the DPU's.
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![](022110USup2482-1104am-rain-55R.jpg)
UP 2482, 11:02 a.m. taken from the balcony again.
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Note the cold rain causing steam on the tops of the locomotives.
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UP 2285 and 2460 with their hot exhausts steaming because of the cold rain. Sorta artsy.
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A
gull heading to Hooters for lunch (lol). I saw this flock of gulls in a
parking lot on my way home from the station and snapped a few pictures.
![](022110GULLS-good-26R.jpg)
A closeup of one.
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