Some trains and streetcars and sunset/night scenes August 25 and 26, 2010 at Little Rock, Arkansas. Included:

1) Streetcar viewed in rear-view mirror in Little Rock's River Market
2) NS 9576
3) LRWN 1542, 1544
4) UP 5982, 8100, 8097, 8644, 1554, 1556, 4098
5) CN 2204, 5713
6) Santa Fe/SMIX gondola 9528 (sometimes I've seen these called woodchip cars-see more in caption of photo)
7) Clouds and sunset scenes
8) Streetcar in Little Rock

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Taken from my parked car on Clinton Avenue in the River Market of Little Rock on Thursday, August 25, 2010 at 10:52 a.m.


Passing my parked car. You don't want to open your door at this time.


LEFT-NS 9576 at 12:53 p.m. August 25. RIGHT-Dark clouds and blue skies.


LEFT-More clouds. RIGHT-Little Rock and Western coming off the former Rock Island in front of Union Station, August 25 at 1:30 p.m.


LEFT-LRWN 1542 and 1544. RIGHT-UP 5982, 6:38 p.m. This loaded coal train stopped just to my left then backed up into the UP yards. Michael Richmond and Erik Edmonds (on the Yahoo Railspot Group) were with me at this time.


LEFT-Evening approaches at the station. RIGHT-7:12 p.m.




LEFT-The sun just set at 7:35 p.m.  RIGHT-Train approaches at 8:09 p.m.


LEFT-UP 8100 at 8:10 p.m. RIGHT-Signals in the dark.


RIGHT-UP 8097, August 26, 2010 at 7:45 a.m. Michael Richmond is with me.


LEFT-CN 2204 and 5713. RIGHT-UP 7832, 8:42 a.m.


LEFT-DPU-UP 8644. RIGHT-UP 1553 and 1556, 8:54 a.m.


LEFT-UP 4098, 10:14 a.m. RIGHT-Santa Fe SMIX 9528. According to Tom Balzen, SMIX is Structural Metals Inc., located between Seguin and San Antonio.  Their main business is making rebar out of scrap steel.  In the central Texas area, it is common to see their flatbed 18 wheelers.  They are dark green with international orange accents.  Out bound they carry a load of rebar and a set of stakes and panels that they set up on the trailer and carry scrap back to Seguin.  When I lived in Austin, I used to see large old open top cars with the SMIX reporting marks.  If they were southbound on the UP, they were full of scrap steel.   I would be willing to bet that if they become bad order and are sent "home" to Seguin, they are made into rebar.  SMIX 9528 looks to me like a boxcar that the Santa Fe converted into a wood chip car.  It looks to me like there is scrap metal peeking out of the top of the car.

There was a MOW truck and workers on Main 2 near Baring Cross Bridge all morning, so trains were limited to using Main 1.

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