Night trains including Amtrak at Little Rock, Arkansas, Wednesday night January 21, 2015. Also, a UP oil train with an old Rio Grande hopper and a long NS pipe train.

Locomotives today: Amtrak 200 **** UP 6473, 5671, 4171, 9880, 9515, 2237, 9610, 5818, 6377-exSP, 5863 **** CSXT 5479, 7538, 7926,7531 **** NS 2688, 8755, 8409, 9933 **** BNSF 518, 2278 

I tried out some new settings on my Sony Alpha 99 full-frame camera, manually setting the aperture to F2.8, shutter 1/125 to stop the moving trains and ISO to 16,000. I'll be playing around with other settings as time goes on. Since these photos are primarily for the web, I can use the high ISO sensitivity settings since the pictures won't be enlarged or printed, which would cause more graininess to show up.


Greens, reds, yellow signals, 8:40 p.m.


My first train, 8:57 p.m. northbound.


UP 6473, 8:57 p.m. GSAMCK-20 (Grain-Ama, LA-Canton, KS) Empty Grain train



UP 5671.




CNW 175098 green hopper.


9:03 p.m.


9:12 p.m.


CSXT 5479, 9:12 p.m. QAGAS-20 (Priority Manifest-Angleton, TX-Alton & Southern/E. St. Louis)



CSXT 5479.


CSXT 7538.




Looks like a former college professor.


TILX 401692 white and blue tank car.


NS 2688 leading a pipe train, 10:08 p.m. SLRSM-20 (Special-Little Rock-Salem, IL) Interchanged to the NS at Salem.
Flat car PTTX 251443 Originated at Welspun Tubular in Little Rock-Destination is Yorkville, OH


NS 8755.


Pipe headed for storage until the Keystone Pipeline construction begins. These oil pipes are manufactured here in Little Rock and is is my understanding that about 85 percent of the Keystone pipe has already been manufactured. Correct me if I'm wrong. SLRSM-20 (Special-Little Rock-Salem, IL) Interchanged to the NS at Salem. Flat car PTTX 251443 Originated at Welspun Tubular in Little Rock-Destination is Yorkville, OH




PTTX 251443 is one flatcar holding the pipe.


Southbound at 10:16 p.m.


UP 4171, 10:17 p.m. Yard job YNL99-21


UP 9880.


UP 9515.


UP 2237.


NS 8409.


UP 9610.




10:20 p.m.


CSXT 7926, 10:56 p.m. UGPSM-20 (Unit train-Galena Park, TX-Salem, IL) Interchanged to the CSXT at St. Elmo, IL
I can't quite read the number on one of the gons to trace where the final destination is and possibly what these cars were carrying. Train was 92 empties.


CSXT 7531.


NS 9933.


NS 9933.


You can see the lights of another train ready to pass the first one, 10:57 p.m. This train had to stop for signal.


The previously stopped train was headed by UP 5818, 11:04 p.m. heading an oil train. Note the orange Rio Grande hopper after the second locomotive, I assume this was the buffer car that oil trains carry. ONUBW-20 (Ore-St. James, LA-Genesis, WY) This train loads Oil from up in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.


UP 6377 ex-SP.


RGRW Rio Grande 15516 hopper in the old Rio Grande Action Road gold.




UP 6377 ex SP.


Two former roadnames, D&RGW hopper and SP locomotive.


Oil train.


UP 5863, the dpu, 11:11 p.m.


UP 5863.


East side of Union Station.


BNSF 518, 11:59 p.m. L GFC5521 21


BNSF 2278.


AUB'S


The Amtrak siding's high green was lit, meaning it won't be long until the Texas Eagle arrives from Texas. 12:10 a.m. January 22.


The BNSF train that had just passed on Main  2 is now backing it's cars to a siding in west Little Rock on the Little Rock & Western. This was the daily BNSF local from Pine Bluff.


Passengers and crew waiting for the northbound Texas Eagle, 12:17 a.m. It was about 45 minutes late tonight.




Headlights from the Amtrak locomotive shows up well on the track.


Amtrak locomotive 200 headed the train tonight.




Boarding. Superliner cars tonight starting after the locomotive: 39026, 32033, 37014, 33006, 31038, 34014, 34016.







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