After a 3 hour wait the train I've been waiting for finally appears. UP 1995 & 7095 lead westbound auto racks headed for Milpitas CA.

UP 8561 & 8562 lead a westbound auto rack train.

As an empty BNSF coal train passes through East Alliance, three coal loads wait their turn to head east. Off in the distance, the headlights of another westbound are right behind, passing the DPU ... (more)

Crawford Hill manned helper sets meet at the base of the horseshoe. A coating of traction sand is visible on both sets of power. It is more easily seen on the light power GE's returning to Crawfor... (more)

UP 7605, a Union Pacific gevo in GE Demo paint, makes its way east on a stack train bound for Global 1. Here it passes UP 5958, which was stopped to let a westbound ahead of it clear the blocks.

New BNSF GE ES44AC No. 5760 leads an eastbound coal load up the grades of Crawford Hill west of Belmont, Nebraska, on May 20, 2006.

Dawn at Omaha Shops
As the Nebraska sky brightens to signal another summer day, the work at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops continues on. Thirty-eight locomotives are visible in this view... (more)

After being down in the bowl moving an errant car at the East Hump Yard, Union Pacific No. 3138 leads sister SD40-2 No. 3267 and SD38-2 No. Y810 back up the grade and over the hump on May 4, 2011.... (more)

A set of hump power crests the East Hump as it finishes sorting another train at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011. An early spring storm moves east of the city and brings out a last few rays... (more)

A non stop parade of coal trains from the Powder River Basin make for great rail-fanning on the picturesque Crawford Hill double horseshoe curves.

The conductor of 5740 does a visual inspection of an empty coal train heading back to the Powder River Basin.

UP 6804 leads an eastbound freight past the Thalen Grain Company elevator at Wood River, NE.

A southbound Union Pacific passenger train powered by A-B-A E9s curves past the grain elevator at Verdon, Nebraska, on September 2, 1995, on UP’s Falls City Subdivision between Omaha and Kansas ... (more)

I wanted to get the UP 6900 (DDA40X on left of photo), the UP 4023 (4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Locomotive), the American Flag and UP flag on the flag pole in the middle and the Union Pacific Logo in th... (more)

After Running Uphill through Knee High Weeds, Grass, and Sunflowers, I Get this shot of a Westbound Coal Train Entering The "S" Curve Along the UP Triple Track, Nicknamed "Buttermilk Curve".