UP
Heritage locomotive 1983, the Western Pacific unit, made a rare
appearance in Arkansas on Friday, March 6, 2009. Here are three shots
of it passing Union Station in Little Rock at 1:19 p.m. I wanted to get
the station in the shot, so I went on the hill across the tracks, but
that made the photography tricky due to the severe back-lighting.
However, it I think it turned out ok (after all, I gat the perfect lighting shot of this unit in Salt Lake City in 2007).
A
series of events delayed the train for over an hour just south of the
station: the Baring Cross bridge liftspan was raised for a water craft
and UP MOW was doing some work and testing on the switch between Main 1
and Main 2 just south of the bridge. So, it took the train over
an hour to move from Mabelvale (in southwest Little Rock), where
it passed One Track Mind Hobby Shop at 11:57 a.m., to Union Station,
where it arrived at 1:19 p.m. My mind was quite active during this
waiting period with thoughts such as this: *^#@(*^^%*!@%.
Passing the station at 1:19 p.m. with a 117-car intermodal that was running from California to Marion, Arknasas (the IHJMN-03).
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