U.P.'s extensive yards in North Little
Rock, Arkansas are off-limits to the general public, but John C. Jones
of the Arkansas Railroad Club has permission to photograph and be on
the property (his photos have been published in UP's newsletters and
flyers), so when he called me on May 3, 2006 telling me about the UP
Heritage KATY unit No. 1988 being in a great position to photograph in
the yard, I took him up on it. He then took me on a quick tour of the
yard area.
From UP's website: The North Little Rock classification
yard has 225 miles of track consisting of 64 tracks in the
classification yard,
nine tracks to receive trains and 17 departure tracks, as well as a
14-track city yard for serving local industries.
Below are some
photos I did during this excursion. (All
photos below were taken by me, Ken
Ziegenbein)
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UP Heritage Locomotive No. 1988
at
Ramp No. 2 in UP's yard in North Little Rock, Arkansas on Wednesday,
May 3, 2006. It just had a traction motor replaced. (Thanks to John C. Jones for letting me
know it was here and for taking me on a tour of the yard area).
RIGHT-CSX 8321 in the yard.
LEFT-From the car driving
through the yard. RIGHT-Looking
to the west at the yard's many tracks. You can see Little Rock to the
left of center.
RIGHT-Remote controlled units
at the hump yard.
LEFT-The fuel rack. RIGHT-A track/ballast cleaning operation.
LEFT-This was taken at the west
end of 13th
Street in North Little Rock, close to Sycamore Street. This is a fenced
area and is not exactly in the garden spot of town. There's a long row
of possibly soon to be scrapped (?) locomotives on the tracks on the
other side of the far fence (I was standing on the fence on 13th
Street). RIGHT-UPY 1130,
former Southern Pacific.
LEFT-UPY 905. RIGHT-SP 7328.
LEFT-String of locomotives. RIGHT-UP 100.
SP something.
