| Posted by Dan I. on July 7, 2020 | |
When I was a long distance truck driver until I retired earlier this year, when I got the chance, I would drive U.S. 30 rather than Interstate 80 just so that I could watch the Union Pacific and other smaller railroads. U.S. 30 generally follows the Union Pacific tracks for hundreds of miles throughout Nebraska. I used to park my rig overnight near the tracks in different towns along U.S. 30 overnight just so I could watch the trains. I remember seeing the locomotive at the grain elevators in Gothenburg quite a few times over the years. Even walked up to it and climbed aboard and looked in the cab interior one time. Since I retired, I miss seeing the western part of the country along with the large and small railroads there such as the Nebraska Central. I doubt that I will ever see a lot of Western railroads again since I reside in upper East Tennessee. where the CSX KD Subdivision tracks are directly behind my house. Don't see many CSX trains anymore like I used to since CSX went to this precision railroading method. Bad idea, but that is my opinion of it.
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