The Helena local (LWL62 14) is parked near Kennedy Avenue in Wynne, Arkansas.

The Helena local (LWL62 14) is parked near Kennedy Avenue in Wynne, Arkansas.

A Harsco Track Technologies rail grinder is parked on the Helena Sub in Wynne, Arkansas awaiting the green light to get onto the Memphis Sub and head east.

The UP MNLMED 14 rolls through Wynne, Arkansas enroute to Memphis with a train for the CN.

The UP MNLMEC 14 is in a big curve (notice the rear of the train through the utility poles) east of Earle on the Memphis Sub.

The day is just beginning in Memphis as the City of New Orleans takes on fuel on a cold January morning.

Traffic starts to get back to normal the day after Christmas as this NS transfer to the UP heads west into a setting sun.

With a little help from a green street light and a passing motorist, a pair of new BNSF ES44AC's are illuminated on the NS main along Southern Avenue. An NS crew has brought this empty into town, ... (more)

After much delay the trains begin flowing again downtown as the Memphis-Houston train moves onto the UP main to make an unusual move over the Mississippi River on UP's Harahan Bridge.

Parked by the derail marker, this faded GP15-1 waits for an assignment on a cold Saturday in December at Union Pacific's Jonesboro (Arkansas) Yard.

This former Santa Fe SD40-2 and an ex-BN GP39M make a light power move on the Thayer South Sub in downtown Memphis.

A new BNSF ES44DC unit, 7760, brings a grain train through the heart of Jonesboro, Arkansas, on the Thayer South Subdivision. BNSF 2517, an EMD GP35u, is also pictured with its caboose BN 12385.

UP local LWA54 switches off the UP main line, by an old depot in Jonesboro, Arkansas, into the Union Pacific yard. BNSF 7760 heads south on the BNSF Thayer South Sub mainline on the opposite side ... (more)

A nice surprise to catch this old Burlington Northern caboose (BN 12385) in Jonesboro, Arkansas, at the BNSF yard off the Thayer South Sub mainline.

BNSF 8956 has made its way to the BNSF Thayer South Sub track as it approaches Kentucky Street in downtown Memphis.