Sunny Saturday Sand Dump | On a humid Saturday, July 1, 2023 morning, an Arkansas & Missouri Railroad sand train prepares to dump ten carloads at Eagle Redi-Mix Concrete in Rogers, AR. Five... (more)

ACes In The Hole | A colorful lashup of four SD70ACes leads the southbound Fort Smith Turn out of Springdale, AR at dusk on a hot Wednesday, June 28, 2023 evening. Despite the different liv... (more)

Daybreak In The Ouachitas | Northbound CPKC intermodal train I181 is under full power climbing the famed Rich Mountain grade at Eagleton, AR early in the morning on a sunny Sunday, June 25,... (more)

All Just A Blur | Just a couple of hours after midnight on the morning of Sunday, June 25, 2023, southbound CPKC manifest train M262 cruises down the Rich Mountain grade at Eagleton, AR. Li... (more)

Descending DPUs | A pair of BNSF engines bring up the rear of a northbound empty coal train which is seen here descending the western (timetable northern) slope of the Rich Mountain grade j... (more)

High Heat On The Mountain | A hot Saturday, June 24, 2023 afternoon sees a northbound train of empty grain hoppers churning out even more heat as it climbs the eastern (timetable southern) ... (more)

Late Afternoon in Late Spring | Late in the afternoon on a hot Thursday, June 15, 2023, northbound manifest train M261 cruises alongside Wolf Creek a couple of miles south of Gravette, AR. ... (more)

Likely the most widely used 4-wheel truck in American railroad is EMD’s Blomberg truck. A rebuilt Blomberg sits in the rain outside Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, ... (more)

The amount of indoor track space inside the cavernous main shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, is impressive. On the northeast side of the shop facing t... (more)

On May 18, 2015, Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5401 gets repainted and lettered at the railroad’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Gary Dunlap, a carman by trade, is applying ... (more)

First shift paint shop supervisor David Smith takes inventory of the Scotchlite Union Pacific lettering used on the sides of locomotives that aren’t adorned with the large flags, such as hood un... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC No. 3598, along with several other units, is stored behind the shop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Larger shield and w... (more)

Rainy day in Arkansas
Union Pacific EMD GP38-2 No. 689 is in the process of being rebuilt into a GP38N at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on a rainy May 20, ... (more)

Modern Day Classics | Just a few hundred feet south of the Springdale, AR depot, Alco C420s numbers 44 and 68 pull their Van Buren-bound excursion train up to speed on the rainy morning of ... (more)

Cotton Candy Skies On The CPKC | The evening begins to darken and the clouds are reflecting the last rays of sunlight as a CPKC grain train heads south on the mainline just north of Gentry,... (more)