Brinkley, Arkansas, September 29, 2007. The red industrial locomotive on the flatcar passed the depot in Brinkley, Arkansas at 11:40 a.m. Saturday, September, 29 (details in caption under photo). Also today: UP 2006 *** Unknown blue unit 8462 *** CSX 7817 *** long Rock Island hopper *** damaged UP autorack car (part of roof torn off) *** Kellogg Grain Co. hopper.  (Ken Ziegenbein)




According to Ken Ardinger (through Mike Murray), "this a GE 45 ton b/n 28383 11/45 from Lone Star Inds in Limedale,IN where it has been since new; it is going to Dallas,TX. The orig name was Lone Star Cement & it was assigned #2, but I see no number in the slide I have."




Here are some more photos today:


UP 2006, 8:59 a.m.


No. 8462, 9:11 a.m. Sep 29. According to Ron R from Oklahoma, that is a former LMS C40-8W unit... mainly was used for Conrail as leased power. Mike Gitlin pointed out it's an NS under the number under the cab.


Tower over train.


CSX 7817, 10:02 a.m.




Rock Island hopper, just coming off its old rail from Memphis.


From the ticket window.


Damaged UP autorack. I'm trying to figure out how this could happen - maybe a crane of some sort rammed it?






Kellogg Grain Co. car.