Included:
1) BNSF 4697
2) UP 9697, 7090, 3474, 1945, 8596, 7418, 8126, 6493, 8189
3) CSX 7661, 7873
4) Butterfly on ballast
5) HLSC Hampton Lumber Sales centerbeam
6) US Illinois rail built 1974
7) WSOR 101507, 101501, 101532, 101520 blue Wisconsin & Southern boxcars
8) Track working gang
BNSF 4697, 1:35 p.m. Sunday, October 21 with an empty oil train.
Removing old ties, Monday October 22.
UP 9697, 2:20 p.m. Monday, Oct 22. Monday is the one day that the Amtrak office is open during the daytime. The rest of the week it's only open from 10:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. when the Eagles arrive.
Tie-laying equipment.
Old watering facility at the station.
New ties mixed with older ones in the Amtrak siding.
Tie laying machine.
Old ties were taken out, new ones ready to put in.
Work was stopped when trains passed. Here UP 7090 is heading southbound at 2:43 p.m.
UP 7090 passing tie-laying machine.
DPU, UP 3474, 2:51 p.m.
Butterfly on Ballast.
Ready to fly.
CSX 7661, 3:33 p.m.
CSX 7661 passing the work zone.
CSX 7873.
UP 1945.
Hampton Lumber Sales centerbeam HLSC 2812.
Tarp covered hopper HPJX 147569, former Union Pacific.
UP 8596, 4:16 p.m.
UP 7418.
US Illinois rail 1974 on the Amtrak siding.
DPU UP 8126.
UP 6493, 4:37 p.m.
WSOR 101507 Wisconsin & Southern blue boxcar.
WSOR 101501 Wisconsin & Southern blue boxcar.
WSOR 101532 Wisconsin & Southern blue boxcar.
WSOR 101520 Wisconsin & Southern blue boxcar.
All four of the Wisconsin & Southern boxcars.
New ties, no spikes yet.
UP 8189, 4:51 p.m.
Tie-laying machine. To see a sound movie of this action, either click on the photo above or the link below:
http://youtu.be/lVXI_dssdD4
Clouds moving in across downtown North Little Rock, Argenta district.