July 24, 2005 at Union Station in Little Rock, plus part of Jermain Taylor (World Middleweight Champion boxer) parade in Little Rock's River District on July 22. You can see the trolley tracks where the parade was held - the streetcars didn't start running until 1 p.m. because of this parade. Plus I have some streetcar scenes of July 21 and 22.  Locomotives and fallen flag cars today: UP: 4215,  8337,  3245, 166, 9642, 4391, 2507;  NS: 9405, 9682.  Fallen Flags/other freight cars: Rio Grande hoppers,  Government of Canada  hoppers,  Illinois Central grey boxcar,  Canadian Pacific hopper,  Pillsbury blue hopper,  Larinburg & Southern boxcar,  Rock Island painted-over gondola.




UP 4215, 8:36 a.m. July 24. Only one unit on this stack train.


UP 8337, 8:47 a.m.


UP 3245, 9:01 a.m.




Three Rio Grande hoppers in a row.




UP 9642, 9:14 a.m


BNSF green hopper.


Government of Canada cars.


Illinois Central boxcar.


More Government of Canada hoppers.


Pink racks.


Canadian Pacific Railway hopper with graffetti.


The year 1881 is below the symbol.


Pillsbury hopper.


Larinburg & Southern boxcar.


NS 9405, 10:00 a.m.


UP 4391, 10:17 a.m.


NS 9682.


UP 2507, 11:00 a.m. (1000 pixels wide).




Old Rock Island painted-over gondola.


Alien "War of the Worlds" graffetti.


I'm ready to board the streetcar at the old Post Office stop in North Little Rock on July 24.


Note the four types of bridge spans as seen from the trolley. These spans/overpasses will soon be history as the old MoPac line that crossed the Arkansas River on the Junction Bridge (right) has been taken up. The overpass over Broadway has already been demolished and these will soon follow. I thought having four distinct bridge spans adjacent to each other was interesting and might be fun to model.


Streetcar coming toward Little Rock on a stormy day, July 21, having just crossed the Main Street Bridge over the Arkansas River from North Little Rock. A couple of days before this, lightning struck the overhead wires, knocking out all power in the streetcar after blowing fuses. No one was hurt though.


The streetcar line was closed for two hours on Friday, July 22, 2005 because of a parade the city of Little Rock was having for Jermain Taylor, who became the World Middleweight Boxing Champ earlier in the month of July (he grew up in Little Rock and did all his training here).  The street was also closed for parking and there were thousands who lined up to see him.






Note all the trophies.


After the parade, I rode the trolley after it started running at 1 p.m. Here is is at the Markham and Conway stop across from the Old State House.




Looking east toward the River District.


Arkansas' Old State House, built in 1825 and remains as a museum today. The Arkansas River is right behind it.