Friday, May 2, 2014 at the station in Little Rock, Arkansas. It started out completely clear, then at noon it quickly clouded up and started to rain, briefly heavily. There were 4 locomotive roadnames today: UP, BNSF, NS and CSXT. Plus UP patched CNW 9798 and SP 6321.  Also, TTX 130731 8-axle heavy hauler, 2 CNW hoppers, SHQX 7334 Targray tank car, NYC 240022 freshly painted dark blue CSX hycube boxcar, TILX 304761 new tank car built 4-14, Missouri Pacific caboose 13704 in a park in downtown Conway, Arkansas and a purple flower.

Locomotives: UP 7756, Y644, 5088, 9637, 428, 2353, 1787, 9384, 7631, 4468, 4598, 6321 (SP), 9405, 9798 (CNW), 6675, 7305, 4104, 6759, 8804, 4709, 5010, 4211 *** CSXT 4715 *** NS 9671, 9711 *** BNSF 7479, 7484, 8976.


UP 7756, 10:49 a.m. EPBNLM-01


UP 7756. 


UP Y644.


UP 9384.


UP 1787.


UP 2353.


UP 428.


UP 4211 and 5088.


UP 9637.


From clear to this in about one hour, 11:58 a.m.


CSXT 4715, 12:05 p.m. Yard Job YNL75-02


CSXT 4715.


NS 2671.


UP 7631.


(?)TTX 130731 8-axle heavy hauler.


Closeup of a Missouri Pacific Lines buzzsaw on a gondola, blt 8-77.


CNS 438151 hopper.


CNS 437128 hopper.


SHQX 7334 Targray tank car.


NS 9711, 2:18 p.m.


NS 8711.


UP 4468.


UP 4598.


Wood strands.


UP 6321 (SP), 2:39 p.m. AARAS-01


UP 6321 ex-SP.


NYC 240022 CSX freshly painted hycube.


UP 8044, 3:13 p.m.  KLDMN-01


End of stack train.


UP 9405, 3:37 p.m. Someone pointed out to me that the number boards are opposite styles-the left has black numbers on a white background and the right is white numbers on a black background. MCMNL-01


UP 9405.


UP 9798, ex-CNW.


UP 6675 southbound coal train passing the northbound intermodal at 3:41 p.m.


UP 6675. CATTU9-29 (Coal-Antelope Mine, WY-Fulton, AR)


UP 7305.


UP 6759, 3:49 p.m. dpu.


Another train meet. UP 4104 northbound on left passing the southbound coal train with dpu UP 6759 at 3:50 p.m. QLWNL-02


UP 4104, 3:59 p.m.


UP 8804.


WPHX 90xx long tank car.


DMIX 190092 short tank car.


TILX 304761 new tank car blt 4-14.


Yellow signals on Main 1 and Main 2 at 4:11 p.m.


BNSF 7479, 4:20 p.m. heading an empty northbound oil train. 7479: OSJFL-30 (Ore-St. James, LA-Argentine Yard, KS) Kansas City?


BNSF 7484.


Oil tankers.


BNSF 8976, dpu, 4:29 p.m.


UP 4709 northbound, 4:39 p.m. ILXMN-29


UP 5010.


Stack train.


Purple flower.


Missouri Pacific caboose 13704 in a park in downtown Conway, Arkansas. UP's busy Van Buren Sub runs right behind it. Conway is about 25 miles west of Little Rock on Interstate 40.






















































































































































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