Little Rock, Arkansas trains at Union Station on Saturday, May 25, 2013 plus some streetcar photos taking riders to the annual Riverfest event in the River Market downtown. There was a usual BNSF empty oil train, but it had two CSX locomotives, which I hadn't seen on an oil train through here before.

Included:
1) UP 4076, 4300, 7650, 4157, 5544, 8523, 5654, 3941
2) NS 2692, 2689
3) BNSF 9969
4) CSX 5380, 3094
5) SOO 122547 CP hopper
6) Streetcars/Riverfest photos
7) ICG 245681 gondola
8) CSXT 493018 coilcar
9) SGLR bright pink centerbeam car
10) GNTX 290160 TTX gondola with scrap metal
11) IHB 19364 gondola
12) SP 656479 Golden West Service boxcar
13) GPFX 638 FCC Catalysts hopper
14) KCS 129070 boxcar
15) IHB 166498 coilcar
16) BNSF 808054 buffer car
17) Closeup of some kind of fly
18) HESR 208818 with old markings of "LA---Franklin---Road Company" and other words
19) HESR 20039 blue boxcar
20) Truck/car frames
21) Old Yellow Taxi


SOO 122847 Canadian Pacific Railway hopper, 10:15 p.m. I missed the lead engines. After this I went to Riverfest to get some streetcar photos, which are below.


This is at the Chamber of Commerce stop just across the Arkansas River from North Little Rock. Rides were free this weekend.


River Rail had two streetcars in tandem running shuttles over the Main Street bridge across the Arkansas River into North Little Rock. These 2-car runs would continue all Memorial Day weekend.


These happy Riverfest girls asked me to take a picture of them with their Iphones, so I asked if I could also take one of them with the streetcars in the background. Perfect timing. I'll have a separate web page with many more streetcar/Riverfest pictures before the weekend is over.


Back to exciting Union Station now with nothing but ordinary trains. It's 1:40 p.m. as UP 4076 heads a northbound past the station.


UP 4076.


UP 4300.


ICG 245681 gondola.


CSXT 493018 coilcar.


A bright  pink centerbeam car, SGLR 6293.


NS locomotive heads a train at 2:33 p.m. This train will have several freight car roadnames I hadn't seen here very often.


NS 2692, 2:34 p.m.


NS 2689.


GNTX 290160 TTX gondola with scrap metal.


IHB 19264 gondola, an ID I hadn't seen before.


SP 656479 Golden West Service boxcar.




GPFX 638 FCC Catalysts hopper.


KCS 129070 boxcar.


New TILX hoppers.


IHB 166498 coilcar.


BNSF 9969 leads an empty oil train along with CSX engines, 2:44 p.m.


BNSF 9969.


CSX 5380.


BNSF 808054 buffer car at end of train.


CSX 3094, the dpu.


Some kind of fly on the pole, I understand it is a Robber Fly. Thanks to Norm Schultze.


UP 7650, 3:56 p.m.


UP 4157.


HESR 208818 boxcar with faded markings. Thanks to Daaren Durga on Facebook, this boxcar was once owned by the Lake Erie, Franklin, and Clarion Railroad Company. The line was abandoned in 1992. For a history of this line, click on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie,_Franklin_and_Clarion_Railroad


Cropped closeup of this area. The last line reads "Road Company"


HESR 20039 pretty blue boxcar.


Car or truck frames.


UP 5544 being held on the Amtrak siding while another train passes at 4:18 p.m.


UP 8523.


UP 5054 and 3941 passes northbound at 4:22 p.m.


This old taxi is somebody's car, probably an Amtrak passenger's car on a trip.



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