After 3 days in the house due to icy weather and roads, I decided to brave the elements and go to Union Station from North Little Rock on Sunday afternoon, December 8, 2013. There was patchy ice on the roads and the temperature was 28 degrees, but very few cars out, so I could easily miss the ice patches by using the full width of the road. One reason I made the trip was to try and catch NS 1070, the Wabash Heritage unit, which was on a northbound BNSF oil train, OSJEE-7. However, I missed it because it got too dark and the roads were refreezing.  It arrived at 5:50 p.m. but I had left the station at 5:10 p.m. But,  I did catch two UP trains on the icy tracks and a shot of the lit-up Arkansas State Capitol. I also included a couple of pictures from three days ago, Thursday December 5, including UP 2001, one of the Olympic units.


I got to the station at 4:28 p.m.




On the station's patio.


A yellow signal at 4:31 p.m.






UP 7389, 4:32 p.m.


UP 7389, 8345.


UP 6639.


Amtrak platform slippery.


Flag-draped locomotive, 4:50 p.m.


UP 7439, 4:51 p.m.




UP 9449 and 7439.


UP 8470, the dpu, at 4:59 p.m.


UP 8470.






Arkansas State Capitol Christmas lights as seen from the parking lot of Union Station.




This is from Thursday, December 5. UP 1892 and 1778 head a northbound on the Amtrak siding. It was raining and that night it changed to freezing rain.


UP 8611.


UP 2001 in North Little Rock December 5.

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