UP 1988 on Saturday, October 17 in North Little Rock.
CIRR 91276 ex-Rock Island blue boxcar. The lettering upper left is "Route Rock"
Waiting for a train, Sunday, October 18 at 10:15 a.m.
Southbound at 10:41 a.m.
UP 5729, 10:41 a.m. MPSLIX-18
UP 6178, ex-SP.
NS 9354, 10:51 a.m. AARAS-18
CR 297670 Conrail hycube.
CSXT 7810, 11:03 a.m. QSPNL-18. Interesting fact: According to David Weigand "It is an interesting coincidence that you included Engine CSXT 7810 with photos of our ex-President Clinton, Engine CXST 7810 is a C40-8W that was used on President George H.W. Bush's whistle stop train in between Columbus, OH and Grand Blanc, Mich on September 26-27, 1992. The 7810 operated as the second unit behind special painted Engine CSXT 1992. However the classy POTUS Train did not carry Mr. Bush 41 to victory over Mr. Clinton in 1992."
CSXT 4743.
UP 9601.
CN 5465.
CN 5465.
DNAX 125004 green tank car.
Blue CSX coil car cover, CNW 19296.
GACX 73429 GATX hopper.
CELX 23052 blue tank car.
UP 1781, 11:16 a.m. southbound. LWS53-19
UP 1904 and 1892.
UP 9673 northbound on Main 1 passing the train on Main 2, 11:19 a.m.
UP 9673, stopped for signal. AWFMPR-18 (Auto-Spring, TX-Memphis-Reposition)
Rebuilt TTGX 965269 autorack, rebuilt 4-14 for the BNSF.
UP 4140, 4883, 11:35 a.m. QTXAS-19
NS 9305.
NS 9305.
PROX 371119 new tank car, built 8-14.
TELX 2405 blue tank car.
CELX 23122 blue tank car.
UP 3947, 11:50 a.m. QLWNL-19
UP 8393.
FXE 4077.
FOBX 90006 long blue and white tank car.
I took a break from railfanning for the streetcar people to go to downtown North Little Rock in the historic Argenta District to get pictures of a political rally in front of the Argenta Drug Store, the oldest continuously operated drug store in it's original location west of the Mississippi River. The street and streetcar line were closed during the rally with the speakers on a platform on top of the streetcar tracks. This was about 1:30 p.m.
I'm sure you recognize the man speaking, former President Bill Clinton (now living in Harlem, New York and rarely seen here in Arkansas). There were lots of police and Secret Service people around. I was standing on a sidewalk a long way from the speakers and could look over the crowd. My 300mm lens does a good job zooming in. Anyway, the streetcars were only running across the river in Little Rock during this event and resumed their normal route after the event ended about 2 p.m.
Here's one of the police dogs, that happened to be near where I was standing. I didn't make any quick or suspicious moves. You can see the streetcar tracks.
During the speech I got a closeup of this wasp.
And here's a closeup of a black swallowtail, which is Oklahoma's state butterfly. Oklahoma borders Arkansas on the west. (thanks to Bill Pollard for the butterfly information)
A red Fall leaf on the sidewalk. Artistic.
Back at Union Station-UP 3829, 2:18 p.m. MAXNPX-19
CSXT 8530.
ICG 535578 box or express car.
NS 9950, 3:13 p.m. MAXNL-18
NS 9150.
Logs.
TILX 263526 green tank car.
UP 6398, ex-SP, 3:27 p.m. ILBMN-16
CP 8838.
UP 5556, dpu.
Streetcar again running through the Argenta district of North Little Rock at 3:40 p.m. on my way home.