Included today:
1) UP 4433, 8598, 4518, 5083, 5892, 7202, 4324, 4350, 4164, 693, 4379, 4836, 8468, 4429, 9688, 9474, 8120, 9423, 8109, 5946, 7453, 8140
2) NS 8937, 9499, 9423
3) CSX 8093, 7521, 71
4) HLCX 8066
5) BNSF 5433, 4481
6) LLPX 2281
7) QTTX heavy hauler
8) New crude oil tank cars including TRFX 1015, built in June 2011. These trains run through here often from North Dakota to Louisiana and back. These will continue to run until a new pipeline is built in a few years, if it actually is.
9) MKT 16378 red Katy gondola, built in March 1970
10) Skeleton graffiti
11) HS 75051 green boxcar
12) Spider graffiti
13) HS 30630 Ashley Drew & Northern boxcar
14) HS 30907 Columbus & Greenville boxcar
15) Couple from Illinois waiting for his brother at Amtrak station
16) UP 98011 hi-cube boxcar
17) UP 355254 small old boxcar
18) HOKX tank cars
19) Family with kids watching trains
20) MP 274509 hi-cube boxcar, built in February 1970
21) TILX 328421 new hopper, built June 2011
22) Yours truly in an 1800's engineers costume
Sunrise at 6:33 a.m.
My first train headed by a NS unit at 6:57 a.m.
NS 8937 and 9499, 6:57 a.m.
A QTTX heavy hauler.
Colorful locomotives at 8:04 a.m. headed by CSX 8093 and HLCX 8086.
UP 4433.
UP 8598 at 8:16 a.m.
UP 4518 and 5083.
Stacks.
BNSF 5433 and 4481 heading an empty crude oil train back to North Dakota. The return train will haul crude oil to the Louisiana coast at St. James and is the same crude that the proposed pipeline will handle in a few years, if it gets built. We see these here frequently these days, mostly headed by BNSF locomotives. Time was 8:45 a.m.
These are the new tank cars used for the crude.
Here is TRFX 1015, built in June 2011. The emergency number is 800-424-9300, plaque 1267.
UP 5892 and 7202, 8:58 a.m.
Red Katy gondola, MKT 16378, built in March 1970.
Emily graffiti.
Skeletons.
They look mad.
HS 75051 boxcar.
A spider?
HS 30630 Ashley Drew & Northern boxcar.
HS 30907 Columbus & Greenville boxcar.
UP 4324, 9:16 a.m.
UP 4324 and 4350, 9:17 a.m.
UP 4324 was waiting for a maintenance truck while a father and son watched.
Showing the train and station.
Amtrak sign with older design. The others use the modern logo.
Auto or truck frames.
This family had arrived on Amtrak's Texas Eagle Train No. 21 at 4 a.m. and was waiting for his brother to arrive from south Texas to pick them up.
Shortly afterwards, the brother arrived and they left. They were from Illinois. He gave me his card (SCC Motorcycle-ATV-Watercraft) and had on a Harley-Davidson jacket.
UP 4164 and CSX 7521 head a southbound at 10:52 a.m.
CSX 71.
LLPX 2281 and UP 693.
UP 98011 hi-cube.
UP 4379 and 4836, 11:07 a.m.
UP 8468 and 4429.
UP 9688 and 9474, 11:32 a.m.
UP 8120 and NS 9423.
NS 9423, UP 8109 and 5946.
Wheelsets.
Old UP boxcar 355254.
HOKX tank cars.
UP 7453 and 8140, 1:17 p.m. I had taken a lunch break.
Family and kids watching on the right.
They are pointing at something, but I couldn't figure out what.
Another repainted hi-cube, MP 274509, built date February 1970.
New TILX 328421, built date June 2011.
Dark clouds moving in, but no rain.
This is yours truly in a newly bought 'Steam Punk' engineers outfit, which is supposed to look like locomotive engineers in the 1800s. It's for an Anime convention in December at Fayetteville, Arkansas, at which people dress in various costumes like this and other kinds. I'm going with friends who have a 9 year old that loves Anime and they wanted me to dress up. I got a gold watch to go with it, and the shiny brown boots.