Included today:
1) CAT's streetcars
2) Little Rock Marathon photos
4) UP 4145, 4629, 9674, 4698
5) UP/CNW 9741
6) Mockingbird
7) HATR 1220 boxcar
8) Rocks
9) CNW 520034 boxcar
10) CNIS hopper 368998
Central Arkansas Transit River Rail Streetcar 410 at the Verizon Arena stop in North Little Rock, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Thousands were in town for the annual Little Rock Marathon, which started running at 8 a.m.. Time of this photo was 1:15 p.m. This marathon has become a major event in past years, and is in the same marathon circuit with the Boston Marathon.
Looking down from the streetcar from the Main Street bridge at some of the last runners of the marathon reach the finish line.
The rubber tire trolleys also were running.
In the River Market.
Passing the Flying Saucer.
River Market stop.
Taken from the Main Street bridge looking at Cantrell Road.
Northbound streetcar on the Main Street bridge across the Arkansas River about 1:30 p.m.
Streetcar 412 on the bridge with the end of the Little Rock Marathon to the right.
Looking north from the Main Street bridge.
I'm heading north across the bridge.
The Arkansas River and Little Rock.
Northbound Streetcar 410 on the bridge. Verizon Arena is to the left (formerly Alltel Arena).
North Little Rock park.
At Union Station at 2:15 p.m. The cars all belong to railfans.
Looking at a railfan magazine, of course!
Here's 'my' Mockingbird again. It was hopping ahead of me along the fence next to the Amtrak platform and went into this tree.
UP 4145, 2:41 p.m.
HATR boxcar 1620. According to Jimmy Barlow via email: "Like Ivory soap, I'm 99 and 44/100ths percent pure--I mean SURE--that it's the long-gone Virginia Central. Like virtually all short lines of the '70s, they got caught up in the boxcar per-diem craze, which could be described in more modern terminology as "If you build it they will lease."
