Thursday, April 23, 2009 at the station in Little Rock, Arkansas. There was a 'red flag' inspection team at the station today, which stopped several trains for inspections. This exercise measures how long it takes a train to stop when confronted with an unexpected red flag. Although I don't know the details, I think all crews passed today. I also caught an over-active Mockingbird near trackside.

Included today:
1) UP 5095, 2420
2) UPY 640, clean and shiny
3) Scale car
4) White, new small tankcar
5) Red Flag inspections, tests
6) Active Mockingbird

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LEFT-Crow on the signal tower. RIGHT-A scale car, UP 900700.


LEFT-The red flag was for a southbound train on that track. The northbound light engine move was on the Amtrak siding, but was also inspected. RIGHT-UP 5095, about to be stopped, at 11:36 a.m.


LEFT-Ready to board train. RIGHT-Climbing on board. (I had talked to the two men doing these inspections beforehand and they said to go ahead and take photos and send them one)


LEFT-Shiny UPY 640.


LEFT-Another train waiting to go south....and it'll be inspected too. RIGHT-Bright, white tank car.


LEFT-The northbound stack train on the left was not required to stop. RIGHT-UP 2420 being boarded. The two inspectors are UP employees, not FRA.


LEFT-Finally heading south. RIGHT-This Mockingbird was very active.


Spreading its wings.



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