Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at Brinkley, Arkansas. A fellow railfan Mark Loewe and his 8-year-old daughter Nicole were visiting Arkansas from Illinois and made a stop at Brinkley on their week-long train watching trip during spring break. There were a good number of trains, including the daily-except-Saturday northbound PBJB and a yard locomotive switching a plant.

Included today:
1) UP 9597, 4379, 7700, 4017, 5385, 4813, 3830, 7011, 5223
2) GMTX 2126
3) CSX 8137, 5332, 8701
4) Crybaby graffiti
5) Rock Island boxcar


12:17 p.m. March 30, looking north from the Brinkley Depot Museum. You can see the yellow-over-red signal indicating the northbound MPBJB was about to arrive. This train will go straight while another train waits in the siding (you can see it in the distance). This location in at Milepost 199 on UP's Jonesboro Sub in eastern Arkansas.


The northbound approaches at 12:20 p.m.


UP 9597, 12:20 p.m.




Passing the stopped train on the siding.


Starting to move.


CSX 8137 and 8701 and UP 7011, 12:25 p.m.


Crybaby graffiti.


Not sure what these gons were hauling.


A distant train on the Brinkley Sub looking east toward Memphis at 2:19 p.m.


Framing the train with our SP caboose and depot. The caboose is sitting on the right of way of the abandoned Rock Island and the train is on the former Rock Island that is currently the Brinkley Sub of the Union Pacific. The Rock Island track was taken up from here westward to Little Rock in the early 1980s.  I can still imagine waiting for a Rock Island passenger train to stop here. The line from left to right is the former Cotton Belt, now very busy UP Jonesboro Sub.


The train on the Brinkley Sub is turning south toward Pine Bluff and Texas and will merge with the Jonesboro Sub about 2 miles outside of Brinkley. Chicago to Texas-California intermodals use the mainly south-running Jonesboro Sub quite a bit.


UP 4379-4017-7700, 12:43 p.m.


UP 7700-8173-5385.


UP 4813.


UP 3830. There were 7 locomotives on this train, a long, mostly empty intermodal from West Memphis.






The rest of this train were baretables.




Museum Director Bill Sayger.


Mark Loewe and his daughter Nicole being shown the museum's old phonograph collection. One is an old Edison edition that still plays the thick vinyl records.








We saw this northbound yard switcher doing work at the Riviana Foods plant south of the US Highway 70 crossing.




Waiting for a soutbound at 4:48 p.m.


The train is approaching.


CSX 5232 and 85xx at 4:49 p.m.


Rock Island boxcar.


Watching the local work.


GMTX 2126.












The Riviana Foods yard.


UP 5223, 5:07 p.m.


A sunset in North Little Rock at 7:10 p.m.

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