LWS53, LWS53B & LWS54 Little Rock locals are good to catch break in runs of UP latest SD40N's. UP 1728 is on her maiden trip out from Jenks.

Happy 150th North Little Rock! I have held my tongue long enough! This project to get the UP 6938 repainted started a month ago. They had to use heavy equipment usually seen in action at derailmen... (more)

The signal at CP x 343 protects the junction near the Union Pacific North Little Rock yard as an empty oil train heads north.

SD70ACe UP 8430 sits outside the North Little Rock Jenks Shops, waiting to be taken back into the shops for more engine work.

Union Pacific 6938 on display in front of the Jenks Shops.

A severe thunderstorm has moved off to the east, but the lightning continues to illuminate the sky over the Union Pacific Jenks shops and the impressive DD40X UP 6938 that is on display.

Lighting streaks over the top of DD40X UP 6938 as a severe thunderstorm clears North Little Rock and heads east. UP 6938 is on display in front of the Union Pacific Jenks Locomotive Shops.

Lighting flashes over Union Pacific 1725 and UP 1784 as a severe thunderstorm heads east.

In a never-to-be-repeated scene, LR&W's C420s and GP7 103 ease onto the UP for the short run over to the yard in North Little Rock.

Two Rock Island GP7 units are idle on a hot July 4th holiday in Little Rock.

UP 1692 & 1659 lead a 55 car empty ballast train over the Arkansas River. In 1929 Missouri Pacific rebuilt the Bearing Cross Bridge as we know it today. Photographed at 14:30.

This ex-MP unit carried its house on its back. Actually that is a rock deflection. And yes, there is a place called Big Rock, not nearly so famous as that aforementioned miniscule monolith.

Rock Island SW8 #834 resting at Little Rock, AR on a damp May day in 1975.

Union Pacific's DD40X 6938 stands guard at the front of the Jenks Locomotive Facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas