Beautiful sunny day with deep blue skies, plus lots of trains at the station in Little Rock on Saturday, February 22, 2014. The most interesting catch today was a worn and faded SP caboose 4609 in the middle of a train. I was told it the train was heading to Missouri and after I looked up the caboose online, there were pictures of it in Nacogdoches, Texas as recently as 2012. There were 6 different roadnames on locomotives today: UP, NS, KCS, CSXT, BNSF and CN. Also, there were two red MKT gondolas, one Route Rock former Rock Island blue hopper, a line of brand new PROCOR tank cars built in February 2014 and other freight cars which I think are interesting. There was a pigeon trespassing on the tracks too and a bright yellow vehicle/truck with SSR on the side parked close to the station.

Locomotives today: UP 5956, 9661, 6546, 4367, 6004, 5846, 8407, 5480, 4367, 6623m 1697, 352, 7485, 3967, 7908, 7365 *** NS 8160 *** KCS 4706 *** CSXT 7897, 9038, 3111, 7894, 7897 *** BNSF 6970, 4911, 6551, 6358 *** CN 5612.


A stack train was just passing when I arrived at 8:08 a.m.


UP 5956, 8:16 a.m. ENLPBM-22


UP 5956.


KCS 4706.


UP 9661.


A 'blue' Moon.


UP 6546, 9:10 a.m. MAXNL-21 (Manifest-Alexandria, LA-N. Little Rock)


MWCX 102057 woodchip cars. These have been fitted for cottonseed service.


Orange containers.


SP 338286 blue gondola.


MKT 16058 red gondola, built 2-78. (couldn't read the last number, but think it's an 8)


MKT 16085 red gondola.


Both of the Katy red gondolas.


MWCX 462670 blue Rock Island hopper.


New PROCOR tank car  PROX 70899, built 2-14.


They were so shiny that you can see the blue sky reflecting from them.


PROX 70886.


This was on the street next to Union Station. There's SSR lettering on the red marking to the right of the door.


UP 4367, 10:39 a.m. WRFNLZ-21 (Work train-Riverfront, LA-N. Little Rock-Herzog)


CSXT 7897.


UP 6004, 10:51 a.m. ZDUMQ-22 (Priority Intermodal-Dupo, IL-Mesquite, TX)


UPS trailers.


UP 5846, 10:58 a.m. MFWNL-21


CSXT 9038.


CSXT 3111 and 7894.


WC 27046 Wisconsin Central boxcar.


AM 511 Arkansas & Missouri boxcar, built 8-79.


MP 706786 hopper with the MoPac buzzsaw.


BN 472098 green hopper.


GNTX 290025 Rail Gon gondola, built 11-12.


This train had a few double stacks.


The trespassing pigeon getting some free corn or something between the rails.


NS 8160, 11:33 a.m. ONUET-20 (Ore-St. James, LA-Gateway Yard/E. St. Louis)


NS 8160


BNSF 6070.


UP 8407, 11:56 a.m. ILBMN-19 (Intermodal-Long Beach-Marion, AR)


Hamburg Sud containers. I haven't seen many of these here.


Yang Ming and China Shipping containers. I've seen lots of China Shipping.


UP 5480, dpu, 11:58 a.m.


UP 4367, 12:12 p.m. the second time! WNLSTB-23 (Work train-N. Little Rock-Stephens, AR)


CSXT 7897. These are returning from their earlier trip north into the yard.


Helicopter and train, 12:18 p.m.


UP 5378, 12:18 p.m. KLDMN-21 (Priority Intermodal-Laredo, TX-Marion, AR


Short stack train.


UP 6623, 12:36 p.m. QTXAS-22 (Priority Manifest-Texarkana-Alton & Southern)


Old and faded SP caboose 4609 in the middle of this train. I think it was headed to Missouri and it was spotted in Nacogdoches, Texas in 2012.


You can see the SP and 'Southern Pacific' on the side.




TILX 10480 silver hopper.


UP 1697, 12:45 p.m. LWS54-22 (Hope Local)


UP 1697.


UP 352.


UP (I assume) 352.


SP 246338 boxcar.


UP 7485, 1:21 p.m. UTACP-21 (unit train-Taft, LA-Proviso, IL/Canadian Pacific Empty phosphate/fertilizer train?


A solid train of Canadian Pacific hoppers.


Central Arkansas Transit Streetcar 412  in the court district of Little Rock on 2nd Street at 3:10 p.m.


UP 3967. It switched from Main 1 to Main 2 then backed up into the North Little Rock yard at 3:19 p.m. brought in the SHGLR-20 (Special-Harlingen, TX-Biddle Yard/Little Rock) Empty pipe cars


Looking into the sun, BNSF 4911 heads an oil train at 3:44 p.m. OSJTC-20 (Ore-St. James, LA-Kansas City)


BNSF 6551.


DPU was BNSF 6358, 3:52 p.m.


UP 7908, 3:59 p.m. MDANL-21 (Manifest-Dallas-N. Little Rock)


CN 5612.


UP 7365.

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