With the impressive backdrop of the Wagner Mills elevators in Schuyler, NE, a five-pack of brand new ACs leads Proviso-North Platte symbol QPRNP into the sundown.

I was sitting just east of Hershey, NE, for what was probably the most spectacular sunset I had ever seen, just hoping a train would show up, but one never did. As I was packing my gear into the c... (more)

Three EMD motors hustle across the farmlands of Chappell, Nebraska, along the famous UP Overland Route, with a mix freight train from Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE as a team of horses continue... (more)

Pure luck. The UP Desert Storm unit passed us westbound at O'Fallon's, but we were on the south side of the tracks and an eastbound was in our way. I was willing to risk a ticket trying to catch u... (more)

On September 15, 2013, three BNSF coal loads wait their turn to head east at East Alliance as an empty coal train led by an EMD SD70ACe arrives. In the distance, the headlights of another westboun... (more)

Two Union Pacific trains, an Eastbound loaded coal train and a Westbound passenger train meet at high speed on a sweltering hot day along the Triple Track Mainline just outside Maxwell, Nebraska n... (more)

Helpers passing
As a loaded BNSF coal train gets a push from a helper set on the right, another set of helpers passes by heading back to Crawford for another push on September 16, 2013.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe tried several test schemes before coming up with “Heritage I” paint for the merged railroad. One on them, applied to BN SD70MAC No. 9647 was not very popular, and ... (more)

A westbound empty coal train led by BNSF SD70MAC No. 9768 passes an eastbound load going up Crawford Hill grade east of Crawford, Nebraska. Two GE ES44ACs are pushing a SD70MAC DPU on the upgrade ... (more)

A work train grinds up the hill with some foreign power as the afternoon sun races towards the horizon.

A westbound UP freight passes the elevator switcher in downtown North Platte. The switcher started life as Pennsylvania Railroad GP9 No. 7810 and eventually wound up in Conrail before being rebuil... (more)

Union Pacific locomotives due for work and servicing gather inside the main building at the North Platte Diesel Shop on May 5, 2011. UP No. 9829 is a former Chicago and North Western GE C44-9W.

UP 7964, the 5000th GEVO unit, leads a westbound stack train with some help from NS 1095.

Two Union Pacific railroaders from a coal train and a local exchange conversation at Lexington, Nebraska, on June 9, 2003. Maybe talkin’ railroading, or not—fishing, family or friends is more ... (more)

BN 9211 and two more SD60Ms are serving as helpers on Crawford Hill in northwestern Nebraska. These helpers have just shoved a coal train up the hill and at the crest, Belmont Road, they are now s... (more)