Little Rock & Western 1541 westbound toward Perry at 2:00 p.m. It's just coming off the UP's Baring Cross bridge over the Arkansas River after being in the UP yard.
LRWN 1541, 103 (GP-9), 2017.
LRWN 1541.
LRWN 103. Model: EMD GP9 Built As: GN 713 (GP9), Serial Number: 22788 Order No: 5518, Frame Number: 5518-2 Built: 4/1957, Notes: ex-GN 713, ex-BN 1786
LRWN 2017.
ATSF 28078 gondola.
BNSF 510003 gondola.
BC Rail centerbeam.
ADN 9844 Ashley Drew & Northern boxcar.
ATW 75086 ex-Laurinburg & Southern boxcar.
A northbound UP train passing the LRWN train at 2:03 p.m.
UP 5622, 2:04 p.m.
UP 5622.
UP 7056.
UP 5984.
String of brand new GATX hoppers, one being CMO 22444, built 10-14.
View from my lawn chair at the station overlooking 4 tracks. That's the Episcopal Elementary and Middle School in the background. This was only built a few years ago.
UP 7880, 2:39 p.m.
UP 5983.
A single carload of frames.
CR 237735 Conrail hy-cube, no doubt carrying auto parts.
AM 511 Arkansas & Missouri boxcar.
AM 361 boxcar with no graffiti.
Red MKT 14038 coil car.
KWT 7004 ex Tamora-Staplehurst Co-Op Co. hopper, Tamora, Nebraska.
KCS 759010 boxcar.
CGRX 579164 CGB Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. hopper, very new only built this month, 12-14. There was a whole line of these on this train.
CGRX 579091. They ran very smoothly without any normal squeaks or noise, plus I could smell the new paint.
Sharp-looking new cars, heading northbound from Texas.
End of the long train. I assume these were empties heading for the grain-producing parts of the country.
BNSF 7166, 3:33 p.m. heading an empty oil train. Most of the loaded oil trains run on UP's directional-south line through Hoxie, Brinkley, Pine Bluff, Texarkana - the old Cotton Belt.
BNSF 5219.
BNSF 7254. When there's 3 units in the lead, there's usually no dpu pusher.
Empty tank cars.
NS 7235. I assume this is a former UP unit.
Jumping ahead now to 11:17 p.m., same location, northbound Amtrak Texas Eagle 22 arriving 13 minutes early.
Amtrak locomotive 67 leads 7-car Eagle tonight. When it arrives early, like it has a lot this summer and fall believe it or not, it waits here until the scheduled time to leave at 11:39 p.m.
Almost bright as day here at night.
Superliner 39003, crew-dorm right behind the engine.
Diner 37016, 2nd car.
Dome-Lounge 33014, 3rd car.
4th car was Superliner 31044.
Car 34117, the 5th car.
Superliner 34037, the 6th car of the train.
7th and last car, 32073.
Train and Union Station.
The State Capitol of Arkansas lit up with Christmas lights, taken from Union Station's parking lot.
Train leaving at 11:39 p.m. taken from inside the waiting room with reflections.