Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Union Station in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was expected to be another hot day in Arkansas with highs 100-103. (4 pm cdt weather at the North Little Rock airort:  Sunny, temperature  99, dewpoint 79, humidity 52 percent, wind E9, pressure  29.84, HeatIndex 119 - the dew point of 79 degrees is the killer, which makes the heat index 119 degrees).
Included today:
1) NS 9658
2) KCS 4604, 4535
3) CSX 7800
4) UP 8096, 9503, 2368, 8451, 2064, 5292, 4451, 1553, 1556, 2482, 2426, 8639
5) Movie of mixed freight headed by UP 8639
6) Seven NS boxcars in a row
7) Chessie Cat CSXT 173167 boxcar
8) Rock Island blue gondola EAMX 504
9) GNTX 295413 gondola with colorful graffiti
10) MKT 599 green hopper
11) UP yellow boxcar
12) Little boy seen through the bay window of the Brinkley, AR depot museum on July 31
13) Shady glade a couple of hundred feet north of the Brinkley depot with 'tube-type' orange flowers

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LEFT-UP 8096, 8:28 a.m. RIGHT-Seven NS boxcars in a row. I like getting strings of identical roadnames on freight cars.


LEFT-Chessie boxcar, CSXT 173167. RIGHT-UP 9503 and 2368, 8:45 a.m.


LEFT-UP 8451 and 2064, 9:25 a.m. RIGHT-Former Rock Island gondola EAMX 504.


LEFT-Bright graffiti on GNTX 295413 gondola. RIGHT-TBOX 665986 boxcar.


LEFT-DPU-UP 5292, 9:30 a.m. RIGHT-UP 4451 southbound, 9:52 a.m.


LEFT-CSX 7800. RIGHT-KCS 4604 and NS 9658.


LEFT-KCS 4535. RIGHT-MKT greet hopper MKT 599.


LEFT-UP boxcar. RIGHT-Newly refurbished SD40-2's UP 1553 and 1556. These have been running on the North Little Rock to Hope locals and were in the batch of the first ones refurbished.


LEFT-UP 2482, 10:47 a.m. RIGHT-UP 2426.


UP 8639, 11:08 a.m. To see a movie of the whole train passing, click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj0pKsXCFo


LEFT-A boy who loves trains. This was taken Saturday, July 31 at the depot museum in Brinkley, Arkansas. His family was visiting the museum. RIGHT-A shady, cool place just a few hundred feet north of the Brinkley depot. UP's Jonesboro Sub is just beyond the trees. When you walk in this area, you can hear birds leaving their perches, squirrels running on the leaves, and other spooked creatures.This is full of water when it floods.


These tube-type flowers were in the trees.


According to Mike Murray, these are trumpet vines. "Not tropical at all as we had them as a kid in Missouri many years ago. Pull the flower out and put the base in your mouth. You will get one drop of honey like nectar out of it. That was always fun to do as a kid way back when." (You may not want to do this....according to Rickard Finch: " I've heard that those trumpet vine flowers were poisonous. Don't know if its true or not, but I'd be careful about tasting of them.") Also thanks to Charles Allen and others.

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