Saturday, August 29, 2009 at both Little Rock and Brinkley, Arkansas. Included today:
1) BN 1516, 3122 green
2) Santa Fe 555 warbonnet
3) CSX 5371
4) CN 2596
5) UP 6790, 8064
6) NS 9405
Little
Rock: BNSF local with a warbonnet (555) and two BN green locomotives,
No. 1516 and 3122, 7:03 a.m. The sunshine had not reached the track
yet.
CSX 5371, 7:09 a.m.
Two green BN hoppers. This train is the BNSF local.
UP 6790 and CN 2596, 7:41 a.m.
BNSF
local headed by Santa Fe 555, waiting for the signal to start its' trip
to Memphis. Taken from the Cantrell Road overpass showing Union
Station.
Wider
angle showing the Arkansas State Capitol. This is where I took the
picture that got selected for UP's 2010 calendar. Lighting has to
be almost perfect to get shots here and only in the mornings.
I
went to Brinkley (on I-40, 50 miles east of Little Rock, halfway to
Memphis) just after taking the photo from the Cantrell Road overpass.
UP 8064 southbound at 10:17 a.m.
Downtown Brinkley with a train crossing over US Highway 70. I'm looking to the east. 11:46 a.m.
Yellow flower at the depot museum.
NS 9405, 2:44 p.m. Light day trainwise at Brinkley.
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