Locomotives today: UP 1982, 1989, 4469, 8810, 7054, 5574, 4253, 4739, 1958, 1762, 4074, 8559, 4784, 6618, 7208, 3917, 8760, 8736, 3796, 4456, 4322, 8647, 1882 *** CSXT 400, 7661, 451 *** NS 2699, 9499 *** BNSF 6592, 6583, 4977 *** FXE 4695 *** RLIX 103.
UP 1982, 12:39 a.m. March 15. Thanks for a Facebook message heads up from a UP person otherwise I wouldn't have been here. ALDAS-13
UP 1989, 10:13 a.m. March 15. We didn't expect it to be here.
UP 1989 was the single leader of a combination autorack/stack train with UP 8810 on the rear. ILBMN-12
UP 4469 southbound ready to pass UP 1989, 10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
UP 4469, 10:16 a.m. YNL99X-14
MP 706774 hopper with faded MoPac buzzsaw trademark and no graffiti.
Passing freights.
NAHX 487353 Altrol Catalysts hopper.
SP 12---20 (can't read all the numbers) gondola, built 8-74. Notice no graffiti on this car either. Is UP finding old stored freight cars and beginning to use them again? I rarely see one with lettering/numbers so faded that I can't read them.
MKT 16491 red gondola. I saw many of these in my youth come through La Grange, Fayetteville, New Ulm, Cat Spring, and Sealy, Texas on the Katy Smithville Sub. This sub is still a very active railroad owned by UP.
CNW 178449 green hopper.
DGRW 10013 very faded Rio Grande hopper. Also notice again that it has no graffiti, so I'm wondering if these old faded cars have been stored securely somewhere over the years.
The 1989-headed train had these Matson containers in the consist, which I've never seen here before.
UP 8810, dpu of the stack/autorack train.
UP 7054, 10:35 a.m. northbound. It was a dark, cloudy day and I might have overcompensated exposure a little to see the locomotives better. GSNDRK-13 (Grain-Nacogdoches, TX-Sterling, IL)
UP 7054 and CSXT 400, 10:36 a.m.
CSXT 400.
UP 5574.
UP 4253, 1:07 p.m. WENNLB-13 (Work train-Ennis, TX-N. Little Rock-Ballast)
UP 4739.
Solar paneled hoppers.
One of the solar panels on SI919999.
UP 1958, 1:23 p.m. LWS54-15 (Hope Local)
UP 1762.
SP 32360 gondola.
UP 908938 old hopper.
NS 2699, 1:36 p.m. MDANL-14
NS 9499.
The previous train headed by the NS units had stopped, blocking the crossover from Main 1 to Main 2, so the train headed by CSXT 7661 is about to go from Main 2 to the Amtrak siding at 1:48 p.m.
ZDUMQ-15
CSXT 7661 close.
CSXT 451.
UPS trailers.
It started to rain, so I went to the station's balcony for awhile. It's 2:49 p.m.
UP 4074, 2:50 p.m. QEGNL-13
BNSF 6593 passing the other train at 2:50 p.m. 6593: ONUED-12 (Ore-St. James, LA-Gateway Yard/E. St. Louis)
BNSF 4977, the dpu of the oil train.
UP 8559, 3:08 p.m. ALDASB-12
UP 4784.
BAMX 7004 former Santa Fe hopper.
SP 246680 boxcar.
NS 657474 hycube boxcar.
CR 297665 Conrail hycube.
ITLX 30695 hopper.
USLX 1702 hopper.
RJCM 4301 RJ Corman boxcar.
NS 489528 hycube.
RLIX 103. originated at Queen City, TX, destined to Stuttgart, AR. Shipper was International Paper for Genesee & Wyoming. Consignee: Producers Rice Regular Mill
UP 6618, 4:39 p.m. CWBWT9-15 (Coal-White Bluff, AR-Caballo Mine, WY)
UP 6406, former SP.
UP 7208.
UP 3917, 5:13 p.m. QLINL-14
UP 8760.
EEC 8593 boxcar.
SRCX 3169 hopper.
Uncompensated photo showing the dark clouds and rain, 5:17 p.m.
The station hawk on top of a utility pole at 6:04 p.m.
Ready to land on another pole. I don't know what kind of birds are flying overhead.
Landed.
UP 8736, 6:14 p.m. YPB88X-14
FXE-Ferromex 4695.
FXE 4695.
FXE 872679XP boxcar.
SP 496630 hopper with no graffiti.
Yellow, red and green signals 6:26 p.m.
UP 3796, 6:27 p.m. ZMXYC-13
UP 4456.
Another train's lights can be seen reflected off the containers at 6:29 p.m. I seem to have caught lots of passing trains today.
UP 4322, 6:29 p.m. ZMXDT-13 (Premium Intermodal-Laredo-Salem, IL)
UP 4322 passing the stack train with an autorack-stack train.
UP 8647.
Two intermodals/stack trains passing northbound.