Locomotives today: UP 9548, 2379, 8492, 7866, 4919, 8028, 5088, 352, 1913, 1870, 1933, 1827, 1944, 1958, 7736 *** LRWN 103, 500 *** GMTX 2681 Operation Lifesaver *** KCS 4009, 4609.
Railway Express Agency cart. These were actually once used for Amtrak here in the 1970s.
Another cart.
Little Rock & Western tri-weekly train waiting to enter the UP yard in North Little Rock.
LRWN 103 and 500.
LRWN 103, a GP9. Anyone know why they are using this locomotive again after several years?
This is LRWN's rather long train today.
The station cat walking the red line near . It shows up every few days, but runs off at the slightest signs of approach.
My first moving train at 12:53 p.m.
UP 2379, 12:53 p.m. AARAS-24 (Auto-Arlington, TX-Alton & Southern)
UP 8492.
UP 7866, 1:01 p.m. QHONL-24
UP 4919.
TR 585507 blue gondola built 1-87.
GNRR 4067 built 2-81.
TILX 401214 tank car.
CCBX 8131 blue tank car.
A UP southbound passing the stopped LRWN at 1:10 p.m.
UP 9548. YNL17-25 (14:30 X-Haul)
UP 352.
GMTX 2681, Operation Lifesaver unit.
UP 1913.
ECQX 57548 hopper. Notice the small blue tank car between the two larger cars. To me it looks like a super-sized O-Scale model, but of course it's not.
ACFX 71770 small blue tank car.
UP 255132 boxcar, built 5-75.
ATSF 68072 gondola.
SGLR 4563 light blue boxcar built 12-81.
UP 1970, 1:16 p.m. LWS54-25 (Hope local) Pretty strange seeing KCS on a local!
UP 1933 and 1827.
KCS 4009 and UP 1944.
KCS 4609 and 4009.
NAHX 100889 Kyle hopper built 2-85.
NAHX 65632 CNW hopper built 7-75.
NAHX 516539 hopper built 12-79.
CNW 178224 hopper.
HPJX 47467 former UP car that used to haul grain in the 1970s.
TOE 3112 boxcar built 1980.
LRS 2512 blue boxcar.
COER 171539 green boxcar.
UP 1958, 1:26 p.m.
UP 1958. LWS53-25 (Hope local) Pretty strange seeing a GEVO on that local!
UP 7736.
MP 722403 hopper with the MoPac buzzsaw emblem, built 2-77.
CMO 396389 UP hopper.
TR 150978 boxcar.
TOE 3026 boxcar.
TOE 3098 shiny red boxcar, originally built 6-80.
LRWN train leaving at 1:30 p.m. This was the 6th train since 12:53 pm, averaging 1 train every 6 minutes, or an hourly rate of 10 trains an hour (at this rate, there'd be 240 trains in 24 hours, but of course in this case, trains were stacked up for movement) . Movements stopped for awhile after this and I went home, but not before more freight cars.
Going onto UP Main 1 to LRWN's tracks in the UP yard.
LRWN 193028 boxcar.
ATW 8250, built 10-73.
LRWN 13072 boxcar, built 12-79.
MSDR 192302 boxcar, built 10-75.
LRWN 2147 blue boxcar.
ATW 75058 Laurinburg and Southern boxcar, built 5-79.