Here are 4 videos I made Friday, April 23, 2010 of UP 844. Three are of
the train crossing the Baring Cross bridge, one crossing Illinois Bayou
west of Russellville, AR. I also took many photos, which are my main
interest. I usually put the camera with the video (Panasonic FZ28) on a
tripod and take stills with my Lumix G-1. I see that I should have
zoomed in a little more on some of these videos (like I did on one),
but I can always imagine how trains look on an N-scale layout I guess.
1) UP 844 crossing the Baring Cross bridge over the Arkansas River
between Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas, 9:26 a.m. Friday,
April 23, 2010. It had just backed across this bridge to switch from UP
Main 2 to Main 1 in front of Union Station so it could head to Van
Buren, Arkansas on the continuation of the Valley Eagle tour.
2) UP 844 and its' Valley Eagle Heritage train backed across Baring
Cross bridge from N Little Rock to Little Rock at 8:48 am Friday, April
23, 2010 so it could switch to the proper track to head to Van Buren,
AR. 844 put on a good show and one scene has the whole area shrouded in
steam! (someone had a good time in the cab :-). My original Quicktime
video on this one is 760 MB in size, but YouTube makes it viewable.
3) This continues scenes of UP 844 backing across the Baring Cross
bridge in Little Rock, AR, April 23,2010. The train then switched
tracks in front of Union Station and headed back across the bridge,
northbound for Van Buren, Arkansas.
4) UP 844 had just stopped at Russellville, Arkansas before crossing
this bridge over Illinois Bayou a couple of miles west of Russellville,
12:26 p.m. April 23, 2010. The Arkansas River is on the other side of
the bridge. To the right of the trees is Arkansas Nuclear One, a
nuclear power plant. here since the 1970s.