UP 8444 putting on a show for its return passenger excursion trip from Fremont.

Ex CP GP30 at Fremont, NE.

Most days one could just sit by the tracks and watch coal trains go past like a steady procession, loaded or empty. It's a crisp and clear December afternoon as the 8051 arrives in Fremont with a ... (more)

You never knew what you were going to get for a power consist in the years following the big mergers of the 90s. UP or C&NW leaders were the norm for UP trains between Ogden, Topeka and Chicago ac... (more)

LMX 8562 leads a BN SD40-2 with a train full of eyesores northbound across the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. The tank car is sitting on the interchange track between one-time C&NW and BN. There used... (more)

A rather unique SD40-2 of Colorado Southern vintage, 7840 along with 7149 were rebuilt as dual-fuel locomotives able to run with LNG or diesel and classed as DF40-2s, however, the 7890 is back to ... (more)

Wide and standard cab UP SD60s lead a pair of Wisconsin Central SD45s accelerating an eastbound out of Fremont, NE. Fuji Astia.

Three BN C30-7s share the honors with an SD70MAC leading a coal train that is about to rattle the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. Fuji Astia.

Looks like an Elkhart to North Platte symbol leaving Fremont this summer afternoon with a Conrail B36-7 second out. The track to the far left by the pole with bands around it is the former C&NW Co... (more)

Sort of a dog's breakfast assortment of locomotives showed up on this westbound departing Fremont, NE. Behind the leader is a GP60, followed by an ex-MP GP15, a unit from some transit agency appar... (more)

CNW 8827 leads a westbound manifest out of Fremont, NE. Among C&NWs first AC units, that had an Operation Lifesaver logo on their sides, the 8827 was equipped with both C&NW ATS and UP CCS so that... (more)

UP and BN went for the SD40-2s in a big way, both roads owning well over 500 of them. A pair of UP's is spliced by an ex-SP SD40M-2 (in an SD45 carbody) as they accelerate a westbound out of Fremo... (more)

A lite power set crosses the UP in Fremont, NE. The BNSF merger had already defiled the warbonnet scheme, as the SD75Ms had their super fleet 200 series numbers bounced to the 8200s with a gaudy p... (more)

GP39-2u No. 3442 leads a GP-7u and BNSF 2421, a GP30u, across the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. Santa Fe seemed to get a lot of bang for its locomotive buck with many rebuilds by their shop forces o... (more)

When traffic was heavy through Fremont, NE one could often see trains parked east of town awaiting a crew change to take them on toward Boone, IA and beyond. A pair of eastbounds patiently wait. T... (more)