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)

Soutbound Grain Under A Setting Sun | Cruising south under the late afternoon sunlight of a warm Wednesday, June 7, 2023, a CPKC grain train enters a curve on the main track at Dorsey, just... (more)

KCS 4619 works up Rich Mountain with a long coal train.

Distributed power units KCS 4149 and UP 6313 are in full dynamics as they help an empty coal train down Rich Mountain towards Heavener, Oklahoma.

Bluebird Morning Belles | Leaving the fog in southern Missouri behind, a southbound grain train heads across a bridge in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas on the sunny morning of Sunday, June 4, 20... (more)

The northbound KCS OCS accelerates through the Ouachita mountains on it's way towards Rich Mountain and a overnight stay in Heavener.

CP 8203 leads a loaded TXU coal train through Gentry Arkansas en-route to the Great State of Texas.

Wednesday Morning Lashup | With six locomotives wearing a total of four different paint schemes on the head end, a northbound train of empty coal hoppers cruises up the main track at Gentry... (more)