Dallas Union Station marker, opened 1916.
Amtrak Texas Eagle 21, southbound, leaving the station at 2:28 p.m.
Former passenger train names are displayed on two fences at the track side of DUS.
Frisco Black Gold.
The Sunshine Special.
Sam Houston Zephyr
Twin Star Rocket.
Lone Star Cotton Belt Route Trains.
The Texas Eagle of Missouri Pacific.
Sun Beam.
Texas Chief of the Santa Fe.
UP 4961 westbound 3:43 p.m.
UP 4494.
UP 6262 ex-SP.
UP 3975, 4:28 p.m.
UP 4759.
CSXT 107.
HS 75041 boxcar. Looks like a former Ashley Drew & Northern.
SSW 70408 Cotton Belt hopper.
A DART commuter train comes into the station from the west.
UP 4960 eastbound, 4:58 p.m.
UP 9744.
Reunion Tower and the Hyatt Regency Dallas Hotel next to the tracks. You can walk there in a tunnel.
Another westbound at 5:10 p.m.
BNSF 1077, 5:11 p.m.
BNSF 1077.
BNSF 5326.
PROX 75362 green tank car.
ZPR 300043 CAT.
GATX 32137 orange tank car.
UP 4492, 5:43 p.m.
UP 8319.
UP 355257 yellow boxcar.
Newly painted CSXT 507994 boxcar.
DART trains meeting.
UP 8222, 5:57 p.m.
UP 8444. This loco was in Salt Lake City in 2007 as part of the UP's heritage locomotives lineup. It represented the current UP paint scheme.
NS 1151.
UP 5422.
UP 6949.
Amtrak passengers starting to arrive on platform at 6:25 p.m. Texas Eagle 22 was about 3 hours late due to being stopped behind a stalled UP freight out of Austin, Texas and a defective switch.
Baggage cart. It was starting to rain lightly.
Texas Eagle 22 northbound arrived at 6:27 p.m.
Looking out my Superliner Coach seat at the boarding Dallas passengers at 6:33 p.m. Train left at 6:38 p.m.
Taken at 7:27 p.m. The tags above the seats indicate they are occupied and the coach was almost full. There are 6 other Superliners on this train, including more coaches, sleepers, lounge cars and diner.
The train arrived in Little Rock at 1:52 a.m. Monday, April 6. 2 1/2 hours late, so it made up some time, some because of flexibility in the schedule.
A fine mist was falling at Union Station in Little Rock.
The rest of the city sleeps but it's busy at the station.
Baggage cart was full of checked luggage.
Amtrak locomotive 57 let the train.
Ready to leave at 2:00 a.m.