Included:
1) UP 8828, 9559, 8228
2) NS 9349, 8923, 9838, 8875
3) CSX 393
4) BNSF 564, 580
5) Bird
6) HLSC 2874 Hampton Lumber Sales car
7) FGLK 26300 Boston & Maine boxcar
8) SMIX 9032 green hopper
9) New TILX hoppers, including 328137
10) Baby girl
11) Wedding photos at trackside on Amtrak platform
12) Lonely weed next to coal train
Two stopped northbound trains at 5:26 p.m.
UP 8228 west of the station at 5:28 p.m.
Bird.
Northbound freight with 7 locomotives at 6:13 p.m. headed by NS 9349. This was the YPB71-30 local from Pine Bluff to North Little Rock (according to a UP dispatcher), which probably came to Pine Bluff from the north on the Jonesboro Sub earlier on the MASPB-28 (according to a post on Railspot by a respected source).
Very colorful consist, front to back: NS 9349, NS 8923, NS 8875, CSX 393, NS 9838, BNSF 564, BNSF 580.
All seven passing MP 346. NS and CSX have yellow handbars, BNSF white handbars.
Hampton Lumbar Sales car HLSC 2874.
FGLK 26300 Boston & Maine boxcar.
SMIX 9032 green hopper.
New TILX hoppers, one being TILX 328137.
Two trains passing, 6:35 p.m.
UP 9559, 6:45 p.m.
Baby girl looking at trains.
Another train on Main 1 headed by UP 8228 passing the intermodal on Main 2 at 6:52 p.m.
Wedding pictures were being taken on the Amtrak platform at 7:09 p.m. Union Station has a large banquet facility that's rented out several nights a week for weddings, reunions, political events, etc and today there was a wedding.
Cropped closeup. I was about 300 feet away using my 32X zoom and they didn't even see me. Very nice looking couple. It was 101 degrees.
UP 7153 heads an empty coal train past the wedding party at 7:10 p.m.
Posing for photographs as the train passed. Note the two pigeons or doves on the platform.
Kissing.
Cropped and enlarged.
Kissing in the sunlight.
Union Station and downtown Little Rock in the background.
Lonely weed next to a coal train.