Included:
1) UP 4315, 4616, 3931, 5219, 4301, 7466
2) NS 8942, 7504
3) CSX 9002, 9049, 4567, 513
4) Ferromex 4635, 4664
5) BNSF 2029, 518, 2851, 2012 on LRWN-former Rock Island tracks
6) GTW 127072 Grand Trunk Western hycube boxcar blt 12-73, re-blt 8-89
7) SRCX 2008 Sid Richardson Carbon Co hopper
8) WWUX 9312 Winchester & Western hopper
9) CSXT 136097 faded boxcar
10) SOO 18682 boxcar
11) NOKL 536042 boxcar
12) MP 271827 hycube
13) Southern 42486 faded hycube
14) CSXT 173461 hycube
15) WC 21138 Wisconsin Central boxcar
16) ICG 690117 Illinois Central Gulf hycube, graffiti-free
17) CNA 795157 Canadian National hycube
18) NS 48703 hycube faded
19) Southern 42514 hycube
20) GCCX 80003 blue gondola
21) DRGW 320364 Nationwide Gondola
22) TILX 401680 Dupont tankcar
23) MP 641885 ribbed gondola with the MoPac buzzsaw trademark and a story to go with it
24) UP 7029 yellow ribbed gondola
UP 4315.
UP 4315 and NS 8942 on train MFWNL-27.
NS 7504 and CSX 9002.
CSX 9002 and 9049.
CSX 9049 and 9002.
Old Grand Trunk Western hycube boxcar GTW 127072, blt 12-73, re-blt 8-89.
SRCX 2008 Sid Richardson Carbon Co. hopper.
WWUX 9312 Winchester & Western hopper.
This was hard to read due to the fading and rusting of the letters, but it's CSXT 136097.
SOO 18682 boxcar.
NOKL 536042 boxcar.
MP 272827 hycube UP boxcar.
Southern 42486 faded hycube boxcar. This train had lots of these old hycubes.
CSXT 173461 hycube boxcar.
WC 21138 Wisconsin Central boxcar.
ICG 680117 Illinois Central Gulf hycube, graffiti-free.
CNA 795157 Canadian National hycube.
NS 48703 hycube. The faded lettering is just the usual NS logo.
Southern 42514 hycube.
GCCX 80003 blue gondola.
DRGW 320364 Nationwide gondola.
Another northbound approaches at 1 p.m.
UP 4616, QAGAS-26.
UP 4616 and 3931.
UP 3931.
TILX 401680 DuPont tankcar.
BNSF 2029, 518, 2851 and 2012 on the Little Rock & Western (former Rock Island) tracks in west Little Rock behind the Walmart and Riverdale Shopping Center. It was idling. I assume it was the BNSF local. I didn't see a crew. (Thanks to Keith Jones for the heads up).
UP 2012, 2851.
You can see the Walmart Neighborhood Market to the right. Cantrell Road (Arkansas Highway 10) is to the right of the Walmart. We're 1.6 miles west of Union Station, about 3 minutes drive time.
Back at Union Station, UP 5219 northbound, 2:46 p.m. on the QLWNL-28 (Priority Manifest-Longview, TX-N. Little Rock)
UP 4301.
MP 641885 ribbed Missouri Pacific gondola with the famous MoPac Buzzsaw trademark. Back in my high school days, I once had a summer job where I would shovel asphalt into piles inside a Missouri Pacific gondola like this one so a crane could scoop the piles and put the asphalt into dump trucks to be hauled out to a road construction crew in the area. These gons had very rough floors and my shovel would always catch on the rivets. This was in southeast Texas near Sealy and the railroad was the MKT-Katy, now Union Pacific, but they had MoPac gons as well as Katy gons. During that timeframe in the 60s, my grandfather and I would ride Missouri Pacific's Valley Eagle from Houston to Harlingen, Texas and I was excited to see the MoPac buzzsaw trademark come through my hometown on the Katy on these gondolas.
UP 7466, 3:05 p.m. on the QHONL-27.
CSX 4567 and 513.
UP 7029 yellow ribbed gondola.
Ferromex 4635 and 4664, 3:22 p.m. on the AEGAS-26 .
Ferromex 4664.