On Sunday, June 22, 2014, after taking someone to the Little Rock airport at 4 a.m. to catch a flight to San Francisco, I went to Union Station to catch a late southbound Amtrak Texas Eagle and get some pre-dawn trains. I decided to just stay at the station and got several pre-dawn and daylight trains until almost noon. There were locomotives with 8 different roadnames today, including UP, GMTX, LLPX, NS, KCS, BNSF, CSXT and AMTK.

Also, I got a streetcar taken from inside the Capital Bar and Grill while I was having lunch, GNWR 7207 Lake Erie Franklin & Clarion Railroad Company boxcar, HCSX 9601 rusty hopper built 2-76, CNW 745016 green gondola, CP 220277 red CP boxcar, ICG 767361 hopper, line of new TILX hoppers built 6-14, TILX 261217 green tank car, AEX 161546 Grace Davison Fluid Cracking Catalysts hopper, a pretty sunrise, SOO 76440 SOO hopper, NS 194479 ex-MoPac gondola with red buzzsaw emblem, Amtrak southbound Texas Eagle No. 21, a new rail-train.

Locomotives today: UP 8824, 8781, 2003-ex Cotton Belt, UP 4818, 9129 Faded, 7320, 8317, 4591, 7958, 2262, 4527, 4442, 4518,  7189, 2034, 1781, 1758, 7480, 4255, 2047-ex SP, 5169, 9439, 5120, 7876, 5105, 5381, 7302, 8821, 7487, 7489, 7423, 6581 *** LLPX 2249 *** GMTX 2145 *** NS 9142, 9452 *** KCS Belles 4107, 4129 *** BNSF 9248, 4542 *** CSXT 7828 *** AMTK 190 on Texas Eagle 21.


4:33 a.m. two trains passing.


4:33 a.m.


UP 8581, 4:33 am. ZLDYC-21

UP 7423.


UP 7423.


Passing trains.


UP 4987 southbound rail-train, 4:41 a.m. WSPMOR-20 (Work train-Sparks, NV-Monroe, LA-Rail)


UP 4987.


UP 4913.


Rail-train.




Amtrak locomotive 190 leads the southbound Texas Eagle to a stop at Union Station at 4:51 a.m.


4:51 a.m.


Crew changing.


The whole 7-car train.


Leaving at 4:59 a.m.


A little morning light began to show up at 5:05 a.m.


Looking out from the waiting room as these chartered taxi's pick up some passengers that got off the Eagle from Chicago.


The Capitol dome.


A northbound freight at 5:27 a.m.


CSXT 7828 heads a BNSF oil train northbound at 5:27 a.m.  OSJTC-19 TO member "oklachaser" caught this same train in her "skunked" thread!




BNSF 4542.


BNSF 9248.


Empty oil train.


UP 8821 and 7302 stopped on Main 1 at 5:44 a.m. MLDNP-20


Another northbound train starts to pass the stopped one at 5:51 a.m.


The sun begins to rise at 5:52 a.m.


UP 7487 also slowing to a stop at 5:52 a.m. QTXAS-22


UP 5381.


Pre-dawn trains, 5:53 a.m.


Both trains stopped for signals at 5:55 a.m. with UP 7487 and UP 8821,


UP 7487 and 8821, 5:57 a.m.




UP 8821 begins to move at 5:58 a.m.


UP 7302.


Yellow, red and green signals, 5:59 a.m.


UP 5381.


SIRX 525460 blue hopper.


Passing trains.


NS 194479 ex-Missouri Pacific gondola with the red buzzsaw trademark.


The buzzsaw trademark.


Rare SOO hopper, SOO 76440.


Sunrise, 6:12 a.m. It actually started rising a few minutes earlier.




UP 7876 and 5105, 7:55 a.m. There was a nearly 2-hour lull in train traffic. QHONL-21


TILX 401236 short white tank car.


AEX 16154 Grace Davison Fluid Cracking Catalysts hopper.


TILX 261217 green tank car. I don't see many green tank cars.


TILX 110055 reddish tank car.


UP 5120 8:08 a.m. ILXMN-17


UP 5169 and 9439.


KCS 4129.


KCS 4107.


Blue and red containers.


NS 9142 and 9452, 8:23 a.m. AKBMER-21 (Auto-Kirby/San Antonio-Memphis-Reposition)


BNSF autorack.


GMTX 2112, 9:00 a.m. UP 2047, UP 2003 none of this power shows being used since 6/20. Very strange that this local power doesn't show as being used when obviously it is!?!


GMTX 2112 and UP 2047-exSP.


UP 2003-exCotton Belt.


UP 7480 and 4255, 9:17 a.m. IMQG4-22


UP 1758, 9:42 a.m.


UP 1758 and 1793. LWS53-22 (Hope Local)


UP 1781.


TBOX 667299 TTX boxcar without graffiti. Built 10-13.


UP 7958 heading a 10-engine transfer, 9:57 a.m. ENLPBM-22


All 10 locomotives on the engine move: GMTX 2145, UP 2034, 7189, LLPX 2249, UP 7807, 4518, 4442, 4527, 2262 and 7958.


UP 8317 and 4591, 10:08 a.m. QEGNL-21


New TILX hoppers, built 6-14.


ICG 767361 hopper built 2-80.


UP 7320, 10:27 a.m. QLINL-21


UP 9129 faded locomotive.


UP 4818.


RAIX 6417 blue tank car.


CNW 178515 green hopper.


CCBX 7122 blue tank car.


CCBX 7052 blue tank car.


UP 2003 returning with a southbound at 10:54 a.m.


CP 220277 red boxcar.


CNW 745016 green long gondola.


UP 8781, 11:00 a.m. MDANL-21


UP 8824.


HCSX 96014 rusty hopper, built 2-76.


CNW 178209 green hopper.


GNWR 7207 ex-Lake Erie Franklin & Clarion LEF&C boxcar.


BCLR 4554 blue boxcar.


Flowers on Markham Street downtown Little Rock.


A streetcar passes the Capital Bar and Grill, where I was having lunch at 11:50 a.m.


Closeup of a flag decal on a UP engine. 

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