Included today:
1) UP 4282, 4782, 7649, 1688, 1669, 1676, 1660, 1698, 1563, 1699, 4093, 7151, 4141
2) LRWN 1541
3) KCS 4580, 4680
4) Ferromex 4670
5) RSSX 3766
6) MKT 4025 red coil car
7) HS 3995 Green Bay and ??? (Western?) boxcar
8) CNW 178088 hopper
9) ITLX 20058 "The Road Of Personal Service" hopper
10) UTLX 23393 blue tankcar
11) NRLX 47601 hopper, no graffiti
12) GCBX 59116 hopper, no graffiti
13) EUSX 448040 four-dome tankcar
14) AEX 7493 Illinois Cereal Mills Inc. hopper
15) DME 5752 boxcar, clean
16) TOE 2576 boxcar, clean
17) AEX 1293 hopper, clean
18) CNW 437248 hopper
19) D&RGW 5569 and 15513 orange hoppers
20) GFSX 4354 gondolas
This 1973 Cadillac was in Little Rock today on its way to Los Angeles from Chicago. There were two British guys driving it. It was the official pace car of the 1973 Indianapolis 500 race on May 28, 1973. They told me they would follow the famous Route 66 most of the way (which they can pick up again in Tulsa, I believe).
Yours truly in the car, taken by the drivers.
UP 4282, 12:41 p.m. waiting for a signal.
Inside the Amtrak waiting room looking at the train. The Amtrak station in Little Rock is open every night 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., but on Mondays it's also open during the daytime.
UP 4782, 7694 and 1688.
MKT 14025, a red coil car.
HS 3995, former Green Bay and ??? boxcar.
CNW 178088 hopper.
UP 1669, 1676, 1660, 12:54 p.m.
ITLX 20058 "The Road of Personal Service" hopper.
UTLX 23393 blue tankcar.
NRLX 47601, also with no graffiti, but it needs a paint job.
KCS 4580, 1:18 p.m.
KCS 4680. Note that the leading unit is 4580, only 1 digit apart.
GCBX (?) 59116 hopper. Another car with no graffiti.
Four-dome tankcar EUSX 448040.
UP 1698 and 1563 at 1:29 p.m.
UP 1699.
AEX 7493, Illinois Cereal Mills Inc. hopper, blt 1-67, re-blt 4-91.
DME 5752, no graffiti again.
TOE 2576, also clean.
UP 4093 and 7151, 1:43 p.m.
Ferromex 4670.
Lots of lumber.
AEX 1293 hopper.
CNW 437248 hopper.
D&RGW 15513 hopper.
D&RGW 5569 hopper.
GFSX 4364 hoppers. Roger West wrote me: "Ken, those cars in your photo's are wood chip hoppers but here loaded with wood ties heading to L&NW Emerson to interchange and brought to Gibsland to be turned into mulch to power paper mill". Thanks to several others who told me what these cars were for also.
LRWN 1541, 2:01 p.m. heading west toward Perry, Arkansas. For a HD movie of this train passing, either click on the photo above or click the link below:
http://youtu.be/qbmv3WUJUKs?hd=1
Taken from the Amtrak platform in Little Rock, you can see the Arkansas State Capitol to the left in relation to the tracks.
UP 4141, the George Bush Library unit, in back of UP's Jenks Shops in North Little Rock today, March 5. I was looking for the North Little Rock home chemical disposal site when I looked across the fence and saw the unit.
Cropped and closer. I have no idea what UP will do with this unit.
RSSX 3766 in North Little Rock. Looks like the RSSX lettering was mostly done by hand, and the unit appears to be old and rusty. I couldn't find this unit on the Rail Switching Service Roster list on the RR Picture Archives rite (http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locolist.aspx?id=RSSX)