A former Southern Pacific AC44 takes a stack train on the Brinkley Subdivision on a gloomy day in Eastern Arkansas.

I was able to move in a little closer with the drone for this shot of a BNSF grain crossing the old Frisco bridge from Memphis, TN.

A westbound Union Pacific local meets an eastbound BNSF manifest as they cross the massive bridges over the Mississippi River with the Memphis skyline in the distance.

A BNSF intermodal crosses the Mississippi River Bridge into West Memphis, AR from Memphis while a UP intermodal sits waiting on it to clear.

A BNSF Westbound Intermodal Train crosses over the Mississippi River Bridge as they head across the Tennessee/Arkansas State Line out of Memphis, TN.

A trio of NS locomotives are on the point of a westbound manifest freight as they await their signal to proceed. The train is strung out across the Mississippi River on the UP Memphis Sub's bridge... (more)

UP 5984 leads IMEMN west out of Memphis, TN over the flooded Mississippi River and through the flooded Arkansas fields.

Flooding from the Mississippi River has left fields in Arkansas covered in several feet of water. Here, BNSF 5209 leads a southbound manifest across the diamonds on the BNSF Thayer South Sub, whil... (more)

NS 7586 sits waiting for QLACMEM6 to clear on the BNSF Thayer South Sub before it can continue its journey west. The surrounding fields have flooded with water coming to nearly the tops of some o... (more)

BNSF 4038 leads a northbound intermodal out of Memphis as it crosses the UP Memphis Sub. Note that composite image editing makes the curve in this location look significantly sharper than it reall... (more)

BNSF Inspection OCS from Birmingham to Kansas City rolls across the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee. This is the same consist that went to Atlanta for the Super Bowl two weeks ago.

Memphis meet. UP 3913 waits for clearance on the UP Memphis Sub, while a eastbound intermodal train rushes into Memphis on the BNSF Thayer South Sub.

I still don't own a drone, but I do have some friends who love to go flying in their little 4-seater... so we flew over to West Memphis to grab shots of the UP yard.

Memphis meet. UP 8332 slowly rolls west over the Harahan Bridge while the DPU of a BNSF coal train drags east into Memphis. A barge can be seen on the Mississippi River floating south.

Track work takes place on the Union Pacific Memphis Sub on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River. The Memphis skyline is seen in the distance high on the bluff of the River City.