Sunday, August 16, 2009 at the station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Two Ferromex units headed a train at sunrise. Included today:
1) Ferromex 4614, 4655
2) UP 9817, 8670, 5506, 7459, 1540, 2450, 5841, 6667
3) Ashley Drew & Northern Boxcar HS 30615
4) Cotton Belt hopper
5) Valdosta Southern Railroad Company HS 3868
6) Closeup of loud cricket
7) Large jet overhead
8) Closeup of pigeon
![](081609USFerromex-850am_1R.jpg)
Ferromex
4614 and 4655 head a mixed train northbound past the station at the
crack of dawn, 6:50 a.m. The homeless man to the left was picking up
used cigarettes left by Amtrak passengers taking a smoke break during
the night.
![](081609USFerromex_2R.jpg)
![](081609USFerromexSunrise_3R.jpg)
![](081609USadnBoxcarHS30615_5R.jpg)
Ashley Drew & Northern boxcar HS 30615.
![](081609USCottonBelthopper_8R.jpg)
Cotton Belt hopper.
![](081609USValdostaSouthernRRCoHS3868_7R.jpg)
VSRR-Valdosta Southern Railroad Company boxcar HS 3868.
![](081609USup9817-719am-_10R.jpg)
UP 9817 from inside the open Amtrak station at 7:19 a.m.
![](081609USup8670-810am_13R.jpg)
UP 8670, 8:10 a.m.
![](081609USstacks-812am_24R.jpg)
![](081609USup5506-834am_25R.jpg)
UP 5509, 8:34 a.m.
![](081609USdpu7459-836am_27R.jpg)
DPU UP 7459, 8:36 a.m.
![](081609USsignals_30R.jpg)
![](081609USup1540-839am_31R.jpg)
Good old UP 1540.
![](081609UScricket_34R.jpg)
Closeup of a noisy cricket.
![](081609USup2450-940am_37R.jpg)
UP 2450, 9:40 a.m.
![](081609USlrgJet_40R.jpg)
Large jet overhead.
![](081609USup5841-1125am_43R.jpg)
UP 5841 with an empty ETRX coal train at 11:25 a.m.
![](081609USreflectionAmtrakDoor_45R.jpg)
Coal train reflected in Amtrak station windows.
![](081609USpigeonClose_50R.jpg)
Zoomed in on one of hundreds of pigeons that live on the station's roof.
![](081609USup6667DPU-1134am_51R.jpg)
DPU 6667.
You may contact me using this CONTACT FORM -
Please
be sure to type your email
address correctly in the form, otherwise I can't respond. You will also
be asked to enter a sequence of letters and numbers to help me try
to avoid spammers. If this site doesn't work properly or you want to
email me directly, you can by manually typing - - ken (@)
trainweather (.) com - - in your email address field (leaving out the ( ) and spaces). Thanks for
understanding. If you want to view more of my train pictures, click on: http://www.trainweather.com/sunday.html
My FACEBOOK page and my TWITTER page.