Sunday, July 18, 2004 at Union Station in Little Rock. Today we saw some rather rare cars, including a Cotton Belt Scale Test Car built in June 1926, SSW #99203. The same train, a Pine Bluff loccal, had an unpatached SP unit on the front (SP #8576) and a Missouri Pacific work car in the middle of the train. The scale test car was the second car from the rear. Also today, a CSX lead unit in the new CSX color scheme, an old UP faded unit #202, a UP and BNSF combination on the head end of a southbound coal train, plus NS, CEFX.


UP 4323 intermodal, 930 a.m.


UP 4991, 948 a.m.


UP 6035, 1005 a.m. with loaded coal train.


BNSF 9509 on the coal train.


DPU 8242.


CEFX 3153, 1030 a.m.


Three loads of rocks.


Wisconsin & Southern boxcars.


CSX 8868, 1039 a.m.


Another view of 8868.


Unpatched SP 8576 on a Pine Bluff local southbound, 1049 a.m.


Since these unpatched SP units are getting rarer and rared, here's another view.


Patched SP 7813 on the same train.


UP 202 with quite a worn our paint job.


MoPac 15262. Anyone know the history of this car?


MoPac Buzzsaw boxcar.


This Cotton Belt Scale Test Car #99203 was built in June 1926 (David Hoge got a sharper photo of this one and it showed the built date). It was the second to last car on this Pine Bluff local.


This car snuck up on us and we had to quickly get our cameras ready, otherwise I'd have been close to the tracks (we were under the station shed when we noticed this car on the rear).


One more closeup (actually, this was cropped from a larger image)


UP 4657, 1110 a.m.


NS 2596


Final train this time, UP 4084, 1135 a.m.