Here's a few photos of trains passing Union Station in Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday, July 5, 2010 plus I added a couple of photos of Little Rock's Fourth of July fireworks over the Arkansas River the night before. DOWX had a special 5-car tank train pass the station at 7:36 a.m., which is the main reason I got up so early on this Monday Fourth of July holiday. The special was SFPMI-3, Freeport, Texas to Salem, Illinois. UP was running only high priority trains today with many trains not running. However, I lucked out and got three trains in about a half hour, including one headed by a KCS Belle unit!

Included today:
1) Sunrise at Union Station.
2) UP 4306, 9399, 7849
3) KCS 4703 Belle unit
4) Red MKT gondola, 16338.
5) Fireworks

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LEFT-Sunrise at the station, 6:12 a.m. July 5. RIGHT-UP 4306, 7:06 a.m.


LEFT-Red MKT gondola, 16338. RIGHT-A KCS Belle unit leads a northbound past the other train at 7:19 a.m.


LEFT-KCS 4703, 7:20 a.m. RIGHT-UP 9399, KCS 4703.


The DOWX 5-car special arrived at 7:36 a.m. headed by UP 7849. Its' ID was SFPMI-3.


DOWX 72308.


Here's some photos I made of Little Rock's Fourth of July fireworks the evening of July 4 using my Panasonic Lumix G2. I used manual settings on the camera, including setting the ISO at 100 (otherwise the photos would be too bright), Shutter priority of 2-6 seconds, and set the shutter release timer for 2 seconds so I wouldn't shake the camera as I pressed the shutter.




RIGHT-This was taken before the fireworks at 8:52 p.m. July 4. I was on the North Little Rock side of the Arkansas River on the River Trail, looking south.

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