One train at Little Rock and lots more in Brinkley, Arkansas on Sunday, November 21, 2010. Eight trains passed the Brinkley depot in 2 hours and 5 minutes, between 11:44 a.m. and 1:49 p.m.  with a ninth train getting ready to leave from the Brinkley siding. Definitely a good day for trains in Brinkley, which is located halfway between Little Rock and Memphis off I-40 in eastern Arkansas. I was in Brinkley on a Sunday to help with a special Christmas Homes Tour brochure the Central Delta Historical Society is having in December. This historical society runs the Brinkley Depot Museum. I've also included some bright Fall colors along an abandoned rail line in North Little Rock.

Included today:
1) Foggy Little Rock skyline
2) UP 5080, 5702, 5817, 3460, 9383, 4091, 9391, 4265, 4534
3) BNSF 7250
4) NS 9960, 8300, 6660, 8822, 8689
5) UP/SP 6212
6) MKT 16483 red gondola
7) Fall colors on abandoned rail line North Little Rock

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LEFT-Fog and low clouds in downtown Little Rock at 9:26 a.m. Sunday. RIGHT-Union Station Little Rock at 10:05 a.m. Track maintainers were working around the corner.


LEFT-UP 5080 and BNSF 7250 at 10:06 a.m. RIGHT-BNSF 7250.


LEFT-I just missed the head end of my first train at Brinkley, AR at 11:44 a.m. RIGHT-My second Brinkley train was headed by NS 9960 and NS 8300 at 11:58 a.m.


LEFT-My third Brinkley train was headed by UP 5702 and UP/SP 6212 at 12:17 p.m. RIGHT-UP/SP 6212 passing the Brinkley depot museum on the former Cotton Belt line, Jonesboro Sub.


LEFT-UP 5817. RIGHT-Another NS unit, No. 6660, and UP 3460 heads the fourth train past the Brinkley depot at 12:33 p.m. This train consisted of all gondolas.


LEFT-The first gon was red MKT 16483. RIGHT-Fifth train was headed by UP 9383 at 12:55 p.m.


LEFT-Train number six headed by UP 4091 and 9391 passed at 1:05 p.m. RIGHT-UP 4265 and 4534 head the seventh train to pass the Brinkley depot at 1:28 p.m.


LEFT-The eighth train to pass came off the Brinkley Sub from West Memphis at 1:49 p.m. RIGHT-Looking east along the former Rock Island. NS 8822 heads this train.


LEFT-NS 8822 and 8689. RIGHT-NS 8822 and 8689.


RIGHT-The ninth train in Brinkley I saw today was this one sitting idle on the Brinkley siding. I had to leave before it left.


Abandoned UP tracks to Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, AR where the trees are finally beginning to turn.

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