Several trains at Little Rock's Union Station on Sunday, April 13, 2014, including locomotives from UP, BNSF and NS and my usual assortment of old and few freight cars. Some of the more interesting freight cars: MP  706602 hopper with the old Missouri Pacific buzzsaw trademark, MKT 558 green short hopper built 4-88 (happy 26th birthday to these little green hoppers!),  DUPX 8753 Dupont tank car, lots of new tank and hopper cars, UTLK 651196 blue and white tank car with "Hot Dimethyl Terephthalate" inside, plus other freight cars.

Locomotives today: UP 4481, 5112, 4725, 2003 (ex-Cotton Belt), 1974, 8558, 4344, 8327, 5537, 7379, 8080, 5139, 5057, 8809, 3972, 4150, 7814, 7026 *** NS 9973, 9321, 2775, 9679, 8799 *** CN 5422, 2030 (former UP).

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UP 4481, 9:06 a.m. ZDUMQ-13


UP 5112, 9:34 a.m. KLDMN-12


UP 4725.


UP 2003, former Cotton Belt, a workhorse on the locals. 


UP 1974.


DGRW 55546 Rio Grande gondola.


MP 796602 Missouri Pacific hopper with the Buzzsaw trademark.


UP 8558, 10:04 a.m. MDANL-12


Blue centerbeam car.


TBOX 663499 boxcar with no graffiti. Built 7-13.


SLR 3018 boxcar.


MKT 558 green hopper, built 4-88. Happy 26th birthday to these little green fellows!


DUPX 8753 DuPont tank car.


NS 9973, 10:19 a.m. switching from UP Main 1 to Main 2 southbound. YNL75-13 yard job


NS 9973.


NS 9321.


NS 2775.


UP 563134 yellow boxcar.


Motley crew of railfans, just taking it easy until one of those noisy trains pass.


CN 5422, 10:29 a.m.  QLWNL-13 (Priority Manifest-Longview, TX-N. Little Rock)


CN 5422 and 2030 (former UP).


CN 2030, former UP.


You can see the CN below the 2030, so I guess CN bought this unit from UP.


GATX 215321 Richardson  new tank car, built 4-14.


Richardson new tank cars.


UP 8327, 1:14 p.m., taken while sitting in my chair. GSHOEV-12 (Grain-Houston, TX-Evansville, IN)


UP 5537.


UP 7379, 1:30 p.m. IMQG4X-13


UP 8080.


UPS expedited trailers.


Colorful stacks.


UP 5139, 2:10 p.m.


UP 5139 with some new hoppers and tank cars. UPGNL-12 (Unit train-Paragould, AR-N. Little Rock)


BNGX 60090 new hoppers, built 4-14.


A lot of these new hoppers are painted at a plant in Paragould, in northeast Arkansas. As I recall, they were the ones who painted all those black KCS hoppers a few years ago.


Following the hoppers are some new tank cars. A lot of these tank cars are being built for oil trains. The BNSF ordered 5,000 recently.


TCLX 318094 new tank car, built 4-14.


Does anyone have a scale model of these new tank cars? I think they'd look great on a layout. They could be sold in sets of 10 or 20.


UP 5057, 3:58 p.m. ARIESR-09 (Auto-Rice, TX-E. St. Louis-Reposition)


It started to rain, so I went up to the covered balcony of the station. NS 9679 came by northbound at 4:36 p.m. YPB71-13 Yard job. Strange to be seeing all these NS power on yard jobs!


NS 8799.


UP 8809 southbound, 4:43 p.m. MNPPB-11


UP 8809.


UP 3972.


An old MKT white long hopper, MKT 4365.


AEX 5400 long new hopper.


UP 450836 yellow boxcar.


Weather was getting nasty. There were severe thunderstorms later in the evening. Temperatures Sunday were in the upper 60s, but by Monday night it should get down to freezing here with lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s, near record cold for this time of year.


UP 4150 and 7814, 4:58 p.m. QSPNL-10 (Priority Manifest-Spring, TX-N. Little Rock) Not very priority having originated on the 10th!


CSXT 495008 coil car.


Colorful blue and white tank car UTLX 651196.


Closeup. It contains Hot Dimethyl Terephthalate, whatever that is.


UP 7026, 5:50 p.m. in the rain. GSNARK-13 (Grain-Nashville, AR-Sterling, IL)


Heavy rain. It would be flooding here and downtown in another hour.

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