LEFT-LLPX 2242 on a light yard move at Little Rock, 9:29 a.m. RIGHT-Little Rock & Western 1542 heading for UP's North Little Rock yards at 10:31 a.m.
LEFT-LRWN waiting for a signal at 10:32 a.m. RIGHT-UP 2056 on another light yard move at 10:42 a.m. It will take the Amtrak siding and wait for a signal. The Baring Cross bridge's liftspan (to the left) will be raised right after this scene.
Switching to the Amtrak siding from Main 2.
LEFT-UP 2056 and LRWN 1542. RIGHT-UP 1966.
LEFT-UP 6568 with a northbound empty coal train at 10:50 a.m. It will stop shortly, waiting for the drawbridge to go back down. RIGHT-Fellow railfans on the Cantrel bridge.
LEFT-UP 1966 (left), UP 6568 and UP 1539, all stopped because of barge traffic on the Arkansas River causing the Baring Cross drawbridge span to be lifted. UP 1966 is on the Amtrak siding, 6568 on Main 2 and 1539 on Main 1. RIGHT-Here is a relatively rare scene showing locomotives on all four tracks in front of Union Station. L-R: UP 1966, UP 6568, UP 1539 and LRWN 1542. It's 11:22 a.m. June 27.
RIGHT-LRWN 1542 leaves at 11:23 a.m. after the liftspan is lowered.
RIGHT-The coal train leaves at 11:24 a.m.
LEFT-Taking pictures. RIGHT-Both trains leaving, 11:27 a.m.
LEFT-HLCX 3827. RIGHT-Trains and railfan photographers.
LEFT-I'm now at Brinkley, Arkansas and the Brinkley Depot Museum at 2:42 p.m. UP 7204 passes southbound. RIGHT-UP 6535.
LEFT-UP 7096, the DPU. RIGHT-Looking east along the Brinkley Sub. toward West Memphis. This signal is always green unless a westbound/southbound approaches.
LEFT-Looking north along the Jonesboro Sub toward Jonesboro and St. Louis at 4:04 p.m. A train has taken the siding waiting for a higher priority train to pass. RIGHT-Parked on the long siding north of the depot, milepost CB-199.
LEFT-Another train passes at 4:14 p.m. RIGHT-NS 7527, 4:15 p.m.
LEFT-NS 9774. RIGHT-UP 7463, 4:25 p.m. This was the train on the siding.
LEFT-UP 7758. RIGHT-Conrail/NS 8316, 4:40 p.m.
LEFT-Conrail/NS 6719. RIGHT-Gons full of rods or bars.
LEFT-Ashley, Drew & Northern HS 0503. RIGHT-UP 4744 in the late afternoon sun at 6:05 p.m.
Sunset with 'Glory Rays' taken through my dirty windshield on Highway 70 heading west at 7:31 p.m.