Saturday,
March 20, 2010 at Brinkley, Arkansas at the Brinkley Depot Museum. Lots
of trains today, some detour trains from the White Bluff and Little
Rock Subs. As you can see from my list of locomotives, you can get a good variety of roadnames in Brinkley (6 different roadnames today). It was nice and warm today, 70, but winter weather returned
the next day with highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Some parts of
western Arkansas got over a foot of snow on Sunday.
Included today: 1) UP 4255, 4648 (with Union Pacific written in script), 5975, 6565, 4324, 4898, 4544, 8099 2) HLCX red 3827 3) CSX 7885, 25, 5324 4) Conrail-NS 5442 5) CN 2596, 1235 6) NS 9700 7) Depot views 8) Pullman uniform on display with information 9) 1953 newspaper ads on display (local funeral home and cleaners ads) 10) ALM 1960 boxcar 11) Weird eye graffiti
LEFT-This
is the Brinkley Depot Museum, the old Cotton Belt and Rock Island Union
Station, built in 1911 after the previous depot was destroyed by the
1909 tornado. Both lines you see now belong to Union Pacific (left is the Jonesboro Sub - ne. Cotton Belt, right is the Brinkley Sub, ne. Rock Island).
Union Pacific donated the land and depot to the Central Delta
Historical Society in 2001 and the structure was renovated in 2003 and
opened as a museum. It is open 7 days a week with volunteers (I volunteer on Saturdays sometimes). RIGHT-This
Bradford Pear tree was in full bloom. The structure to the right is the
Monroe, Arkansas Missouri Pacific depot, which was moved here a few
years ago. Monroe, Arkansas is only about 10 miles southeast. The two
structures to the left is an old boarding house, also from
Monroe, that was located close to the depot when it was in Monroe, and
an old outhouse to show how people in the country went to the
bathroom a century ago. Notice the wash pan on the boarding house.
LEFT-UP 4255 and 4648, 9:19 a.m. RIGHT-Notice the apparent hand-scripted 'Union Pacific' on 4648.
LEFT-HLCX 3827. RIGHT-UP 5975, 10:10 a.m.
LEFT-This
mixed train had a dpu, UP 6565. Even at a shutter speed of 1/400th
second, you can notice a slight blur on hopper UP 88821. Track speed
here is 60 mph. As I understand it, the people of Brinkley don't want
long trains to block US Highway 70 too long, so they let UP operate at
track speed through town. RIGHT-UP 4324, 10:59 a.m. As you can see,
it's severely back-lit here so I had to open up the lens quite a bit.
LEFT-CN 2596 and 1235, 12:35 p.m. RIGHT-A Pullman Conductor's uniform inside the museum. Details below:
RIGHT-Here are some newspaper ads from 1953 in the Brinkley Depot Museum. Notice the phone numbers of only 3 numbers!
LEFT-CSX
5324 and UP 4898 at 3:07 p.m. Afternoon lighting is much better at the
depot as the tracks through town run north-south. RIGHT-As seen from
the offices, the old ticket office.
A train coming off the Brinkley Sub at 3:30 p.m. headed by NS 9700.
NS 9700, UP 4544 and 8099. The
Brinkley Sub joins the Jonesboro Sub a couple of miles south of town.
This train will continue on a separate track for those couple of
miles.
LEFT-ALM boxcar 1960. RIGHTNot sure what this graffiti is, but it appears to be eyeballs of some sort.
LEFT-Rock. RIGHT-Some tourists leaving.
Dark clouds moved in after 4:30 p.m.
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