UP 1686 and 1831 southbound, 2:59 p.m. LWS53B-21
UP 1686 and 1831.
UP 1831. These locomotives always look clean. I couldn't find the history of this unit, but someone of Facebook did. 1831 is ex-UP 3292
UP 1833.
NAHX 65610. Former Rock Island?
Bird right in front of me on the platform.
UP 1784 and 1823, northbound at 3:07 p.m. I'm looking into the sun and had to compensate the exposure. I need to come out in the mornings since the track is east-west past here so I have better lighting. LWS54-21
UP 9527.
Going east.
MP 376928 boxcar with the MoPac Eagle.
JTSX 487481 hopper.
Flatcars with the side poles. (I forgot what you call these cars).
MKT 16433 red Katy gondola.
WP 7738 Western Pacific hopper.
HZGX 3272 old Herzog gondola.
BNGX 31612 hopper.
SOXX 520498 hopper.
Small jet taking off.
Another airliner taking off at 3:44 p.m. According to Jeremy Krauss, the plane is a former Continental Airlines jet which is now part of United Airlines. Little Rock's airport, Adams Field, is only about 3 miles southeast of the station.
CSXT 5458, 3:46 p.m. QLWNL-21
CSXT 7512.
UP 4720.
UP 8532.
CNS 437119 white hopper.
CNW 178232 green long hopper.
MKT 509 green short hopper.
Brand new GATX tank car 214510, built 5-14.
VTGX 80298 hopper. The VTGX hopper is former Blue Circle Cement. (Thanks to Daaren Durga on Facebook)
UP 4790 leading a dump train. WMONLD-16 (Work train-Monroe, LA-N. Little Rock/Granite Mtn.-Dump)
UP 4790.
The dump cars.
UP 4460, northbound, 4:13 p.m. AARAS-20
UP 4089.
CSXT 180846 hycube boxcar.
UP 3845, 4:27 p.m. MSANL-20
Auto frames.
At 4:50 p.m., UP 4011 on the far track Main 1 just passed me when UP 4070 zipped by on Main 2, both northbound. UP 4011 was on QSHNL-21. UP 4070 on ZMXYC-19
Passing trains.
End of the stack train.
MRMX 130040 green hopper.
EEC 88180 shiny boxcar.
MKT 523 short green hopper.
Here's a car that was parked at the station for a long time. A tire has gone flat.
This was on the car.
NS 2705, 5:32 p.m. It was stopped waiting on a signal. YPB71-21 Yard Job
While I was walking back to my car, this train on Main 1 passed the stopped train on Main 2. It was headed by UP 4655 and 4444. It caught me by surprise, although the engineer of the stopped NS train tried to tell me it was coming by blowing their horn. QSPNL-20
Both trains 5:38 p.m.
The evening of May 21, I was having dinner with a friend at Capeo's Italian Restaurant in downtown North Little Rock, when I spotted this car across the street. It's a 1961 red Cadillac convertible owned by a lady inside the restaurant, who said she was born in 1961 and wanted a car from the same year. She gave me permission to get pictures of this car.
Back of the car with a streetcar passing on Main Street.
Roses in front of the car.
If you'd like to see more pictures of this car, click on:
http://thundertrain.org/cadillac-1961.html
A streetcar going up onto the Main Street bridge from the North Little Rock side, May 21.
Streetcar passing the old Main Street Post Office, now a branch of the North Little Rock Laman Library, which is to have a railroad room inside the library, in case anyone wants to donate some railroad items. Contact me if you do.
Here is a baby Red Tailed Hawk on the roof of a building off Gaines Street in Little Rock, taken May 20. People in the Blue Cross building say it was about 3 months old. There's a huge nest in a tree next to the office building.
Here's the nest.
Here's the mother hawk flying away.
To see more hawk pictures, click on:
http://thundertrain.org/redtailhawk-052014.html