Monday, July 14, 2014 at the station in Little Rock, AR. I saw one very colorful locomotive consist on one train with UP, CN, CSXT and CP engines, plus a lot of hycube boxcars and other interesting freight cars. There were 5 locomotive roadnames today. Some of the freight cars included DUPX 8703 DuPont TL.PURE tank car, CNA 798010 CN hycube boxcar, CNW 490899 yellow CNW hopper, GTW 30588 CN hycube, CNW 171693 hopper with the "Employee-Owned" logo. Rain moved in late in the day and I got a mad, wet bird, plus some dark clouds shaped like fingers and one had a nose and lips (in my imagination). Plus tons of other freight cars I thought were interesting.

Locomotives today: CN 2542 *** CSXT 7695 *** CP 8777 *** BNSF 8075, 5727, 7570 *** UP 6337, 7321 (shiny, clean), 800 (not so clean), 687, 1395, 1773, 3876, 1395, 3824, 3938, 4573, 5302, 6021, 6534, 5153, 7753, 8453, 4664, 4698, 4096, 4348, 6055, 7230, 7285, 8509, 8840, 6935, 1781, 9794, 1844, 1778, 8724, 5661, 7918, 8131, 9619, 9630, 9755, 6337.


UP 6337, 11:41 a.m.


UP 9630, 11:51 a.m.


UP 9619.


UP 8131, 12:25 p.m.


UP 8131, 12:26 p.m.


UP 7918.


AM 316, old Arkansas & Missouri boxcar.

 
OCPX 71817 hopper, built 1-99.


HDTX 5011 express car or boxcar.


UP 5661, 12:44 p.m.


Coal train, empty.


UP 8724, dpu of the coal train, 12:52 p.m.


UP 1844, 1:03 p.m.


UP 1844, 1778, 1758.


UP 1781, 9794.


Two TBOX boxcars without graffiti, 663429 and 667100. We call these clean boxcars 'virgin boxcars'. To anyone who is a graffiti 'artist', if you must show off your work, use rusty, dirty old freight cars and not newly repainted ones and don't cover any of the old extinct roadnames and logos on older cars either. Some of you have excellent talent but couldn't you use that talent to paint such things as murals for city parks, or like in North Little Rock, paint the electrical/transformer shelters around town? Just an idea.


Georgia Pacific wood products.


UP 6935, 1:18 p.m.


UP 8599, 8840.


Employee Owned NorthWestern logo on a hopper.


Here is that hopper, CNW 171693 (very faded on the left).


UP 7285, 1:33 p.m.


UP 7285.


UP 7230.


UP 6055, dpu, 1:42 a.m.


UP 4348, 2:17 p.m. on the Amtrak siding to get around the stopped coal train.


I'm well out of the way, sitting on my chair.




Passing the coal train, which had been stopped on the turnout between Main 2 and Main 2. Using the Amtrak siding allows freights to get around the stopped train.


UP 4096, 2:27 p.m.


UP 4698, 2:27 p.m.


Another train came on Main 1 while it was blocked by the autorack train.


DUPX 24980 DuPont tank car.


Vivid blue tank car CELX 23040.


SHPX 207320 black and white tank car.


GACX 73455 clean hopper.


GATX Service Driven logo on a tank car.


Here is that tank car, GATX 98636.


DOWX 80698 light orange and white tank car.


GATX 211882 short tank car.


This is the start of the multi-color locomotive consist, UP 4664 leads at 2:52 p.m.


UP 8453.


CN 2542.


CSXT 7695.


CP 8777.


All five locomotives on the 'rainbow' train.


TCWR 151487 green boxcar. Never saw these reporting marks.


GTW 305885 Grand Trunk Western hycube boxcar.


Another Grand Trunk Western in a darker blue, GTW 378033.


SPMW 7277 hopper.


ARMN 170183 reefer.


ARMN 932002 Chilled Express reefer.


CNW 490899 yellow hopper.


ICG 680054 CN hycube.


MP 273002 UP hycube.


SRCX 2080 hopper, built 5-92.


SRCX 941 Sid Richardson Carbone Co hopper, painted 2-80.


TILX 111433 red and white tank car, built 5-13. This was a very long freight, by the way.


MCEX 350287 hopper.


CNA 795103 CN hycube.


GTW 27014 blue hycube.


CNA 798010 hycube.


DUPX 8703 TI.PURE DuPont tank car.


KCS 129163 boxcar.


TFM 23016 boxcar.


Dark clouds started to move in at 3:06 p.m.


This clouds looks like five fingers to me.


UP 6021, 3:06 p.m.


UP 7753 on right passes the stopped coal train with UP 6021, 3:11 p.m.


UP 5153.


BNSF 406357 hopper.


UP 6021 leaving at 3:16 p.m.


The upper left of this cloud looks like a nose with lips right below it. The face is looking up.


UP 5302, dpu of the coal train, 3:25 p.m.


BNSF 7570 leading an empty coal train from St James, Louisiana at 3:38 p.m.


BNSF 5727.


BNSF 8075.




UP 3938, southbound, 3:56 p.m. There are 8 locomotives in this consist.


UP 3824.


UP 3876 and 1395.


UP 1395 and 1773.


UP 687 and 800.


UP 800.


All 8 locomotives.


New hopper, CPCX 814035 built 6-14.




This sharp looking locomotive was in North Little Rock today, UP 7321, It was clean and shiny with no flag or anything but the UP name and number.






A wet bird later in the day during a downpour.

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