A very foggy day at the station in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday, December 8, 2007. It was also a chilly 48 degerees. However, just 40 miles to the south in Pine Bluff, Arknasas, it was a balmy 72. This warmer air was overrunning the colder air in Little Rock....thus the fog with visibility less than a quarter mile. It made for some nifty train photos, though. I also have a couple of shots from the Main Street Bridge in North Little Rock.

Included today (when I could read the locomotive numbers): UP 4631, 4242, 2300, 4984, 7101, 8506, 2886, 2486. Plus a Christmas greeting at the end of the page.




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LEFT-Northbound rounding the curve south of Union Station, Little Rock, at 9:13 a.m. December 8, 2007. RIGHT-UP 4631.


LEFT-Another train at 9:22 a.m.  RIGHT-UP 4242 (the next in line to  #4141? - :-)


LEFT-9:27 a.m. The fog was getting more dense. RIGHT-Eerie signal lights in the fog.


LEFT-Zooming out. RIGHT-UP 2300, 9:29 a.m.


LEFT-Looking east-north at the Cantrell Road bridge and the Baring Cross signals. Can you see the yellow board on the right? RIGHT-UP 2300 passing.


It's now 9:40 a.m. and there's another train somewhere in this picture. Visibility was near zero at this time.


LEFT-Same train. RIGHT-The train emerging from the fog was headed by UP 4984.


This is what the engineer of UP 4984 was seeing.


LEFT-Another train passes the previous one at 9:48 a.m. RIGHT-The ghostly figure on the platform is Joe, one of our group.


10:08 a.m. showing the last of the train.


LEFT-A track inspector truck on the Amtrak siding. RIGHT-Even the pigeons stayed put.


A loaded coal train coming off the Baring Cross bridge toward the station at 10:21 a.m.



LEFT-UP 7101 leads the coal train.


LEFT-10:33 a.m. RIGHT-UP 8506.


RIGHT-Another train at 10:46 a.m. 


LEFT-UP 2886. RIGHT-From the balcony of Union Station at 11:18 a.m.


UP 2486.


Taken from the Main Street Overpass in North Little Rock at 12:05 p.m. UP's Jenks Shop is behind the train, which is heading north. UP 2486 heads this auto-rack train.


Looking east-north into UP's North Little Rock yards.


The Van Buren sub curves to the right here.


A tree in my front yard a couple of days before.



MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS