Sunday, March 8, 2015 at Little Rock and North Little Rock had a good variety of trains, including a 19-car Engineering Special which spent the night on the business track in North Little Rock and UP 1982, the Missouri Pacific heritage locomotive, was also in town, and I found UP 2777, an old ex-SP SD40M-2.  Plus my usual old freight cars. There was still lots of ice on the ground from a winter storm 3 days ago.


Ice mountain made by scraped up ice and snow at the North Little Rock UP yards, March 8.


UP 1982 next to the UP Credit Union in North Little Rock at 8:44 a.m.


UP 1484, ex SP. departed NLR on the QNLCH-09 heading to Clearing yard in Chicago.


NREX ex UP 2777, ex-SP SD40M-2, North Little Rock.  It is coming from the MNA at Carthage, MO heading to Mt. Vernon, IL


NREX 2777 with remaining ice.


Closeup of the NREX ex UP 2777 number reveals the NREX name. It's headed to the Missouri and Northerh Arkansas for starage.


At Union Station in Little Rock now with lots of left-over ice from the storm 3 days ago. This part of the parking lot is in the shade most of the day in the winter so ice melts slowly. The path from the Amtrak waiting room to the tracks and platform are clear of ice.






UP 8626, 9:31 a.m.  MSANL-06


UP 4925.


RJCM 4527 boxcar.


AM 540 boxcar.


MP 718340 ex C&EI  hopper.


MP 201266 hopper.


Blue centerbeam.


UP 8084, 10:25 a.m. QHONL-07


NS 2709.


GATX 29563 dirty tank car.


Train on Main 2 passing at 10:37 a.m.


UP 4106, 10:27 a.m.   MLIAS-07


NS 8939.


Passing trains, always better to have 2 trains instead of 1.


SOO 120097 ex CP hopper.




CCBX 2035 blue tank car.


Train and helicopter.


Light engine move.


GMTX 2145.


UP 2047 ex SP.


Ties and end of train locomotive, 10:40 a.m.


UP 7624, dpu.


Closeup of the ties. They've been here for months.


Another train on Main 2 passes the stopped train, at 10:58 a.m.


UP 3989, 10:58 a.m.


UP 3989. (ex-SP SD70m) QSPAS-07


UP 9467.


NS 8753.


NS 8753.


TELX 49029 blue tank car.


CELX 23041 blue tank car.


The passing train and the train on the other track are both moving.


UP 7624.


WP 38519 UP boxcar.


10:51 a.m.


UP engineering special at 9:30 p.m. March 8 parked on the business track close to Jenk's Shops in North Little Rock. This is where UP steam engine 844 and train parks when it was in town years ago. (Thanks for the heads up by fellow railfan Joe Roddy when he saw this train passing Union Station earlier in the evening). The train's ID was PNLCB2-9 (thanks to Mr. Rudolph)  heading back to Omaha/Council Bluffs from a trip to Texas and Louisiana.
   CONSIST of Sunday night's UP special in North Little Rock was (I listed it front to back) I only got car numbers, not the names: Locomotives UP 8142, UP 8128 followed by 19 passenger cars, all being UPP-203, 4808, 7011, 1602, 1610, 5779, 314, 412, 119, 150, 140, 208, 8008, 7001, 5468, 5480, 6203, 5486, 5473.
        The names of the cars from another source (I don't know if they can be matched with the numbers 100 percent or not):
..Portland Rose (Coach)
..City of Salina (Coach)
..Sun Valley (Club Lounge)
..Sunshine Special (Coach)
..Katy Flyer (Coach)
..Columbine (Dome Coach)
..City of Portland (Dome Diner)
..Power car 208
..Stanford (Business, ex SP car)
..Sunset (Business, ex SP car)
..Kenefick (Business)
..Lake Forest (Deluxe Sleeper)
..Columbia River (Crew Car/Crew Sleeper)
..Baggage car 5779
..Portola (Deluxe Sleeper)
..Green River (Deluxe Sleeper)
..Missouri River Eagle (Dome Diner)
..City of Los Angeles (Diner)
..Idaho (Inspection)


You can see Arkansas State's Capital in the background.













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