Author: Mike Woodruff
Action and roster shots of mainline and shortline subjects in Arkansas.
Northbound on the former Mopac with a long mixed manifest.
Waiting for a recrew on the UP's former Mopac line from Texarkana to Little Rock.
NS C40/C39 duo work a southbound freight on the former Cotton Belt.
NS power on a southbound manifest, not what we expected to see on the former Cotton Belt in Arkansas.
The M-MEMKCK gets underway after a meet at Imboden on the Thayer sub.
BNSF train MEM-KCK is about to duck under the US62 highway bridge at Imboden on the former SLSF Thayer sub.
An empty Scherer coal train is headed back to the PRB for reloading via the former SLSF Thayer sub.
Empty Scherer coal train about to duck under the US62 highway bridge at Imboden on the former SLSF Thayer sub.
DPU on an empty Scherer coal train at Imboden on the Thayer sub.
BNSF train "KCK-MEM" with a Warbonnet leader gets underway after picking up at Jonesboro. The hoppers of an empty Scherer coal train can be seen in the background. UP's former Cotton Belt main is the other mainline visible.
Lease unit employed by UP in local service. HLCX 1029 is ex-UP 2529, rebuilt to GP38-2 from UP GP40 852, ex-ICG 3012, nee-IC 3012.
Lease units employed by UP in local service. LLPX 2254 was originally LIRR 277, later became GMTX 2283.
An easbound BNSF stack train behind an NS leader is about to cross the former Cotton Belt just east of Jonesboro.