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
LEFT-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. RIGHT-UP 3862, 9:01 a.m.
LEFT-Yellow signals tell a southbound is ready to pass. RIGHT-Small dog pack.
LEFT-Dogs going down the Amtrak ramp. RIGHT-UP 4171, un-enhanced photo, at 10:12 a.m. 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.
UP 4171 on the Pine Bluff local, YNL75.
LEFT-GMTX 2156, Ferromex 4602. RIGHT-UP 4727.
LEFT-MKT green hopper, 544. RIGHT-Baretables in the midst of the train.
LEFT-The
bottom is about to fall out of these clouds. I missed a lightning bolt
by 2 seconds. Temperature was 47 degrees. RIGHT-The floodlights turned
on at 10:34 a.m.
RIGHT-The lights turned off temporarily.
Taken from the upper deck of the station looking southeast toward downtown Little Rock.
UP 5722, 10:52 a.m.
UP 5722 heading a loaded coal train, 10:53 a.m.
LEFT-Wet coal!! RIGHT-UP 7083, UP/SP 6290 are the DPU's.
UP 2482, 11:02 a.m. taken from the balcony again.
Note the cold rain causing steam on the tops of the locomotives. Sorta artsy.
RIGHT-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.
A closeup of one. You may contact me using this CONTACT FORM -
Please
be sure to type your email
address correctly in the form, otherwise I can't respond. You will also
be asked to enter a sequence of letters and numbers to help me try
to avoid spammers. If this site doesn't work properly or you want to
email me directly, you can by manually typing - - ken (@)
trainweather (.) com - - in your email address field (leaving out the ( ) and spaces). Thanks for
understanding. If you want to view more of my train pictures, click on:http://www.trainweather.com/sunday.html You can also find me on Facebook.