On formerly home rails, C&NW 8711 is paired with a repainted C&NW SD40-2 as they lead auto racks into the December sundown. This was C&NWs freight line between Missouri Valley, IA and Fremont, NE ... (more)

UP 8305 leads a smaller but ever-trusty SD40-2 on Proviso to North Platte symbol MPRNP on a winter afternoon.

CNW 8638 West is pouring on the power for Arlington hill as the train departs Kennard, NE on a winter's day.

With a hot rail on the adjoining main line, a UP construction crew working on a new concrete bridge over Southwest Branch of Big Papillion, stands by in the clear of the intermodal train.

Union Pacific GE 7945 leads a westbound manifest freight past the old siding switch for West Kennard, Nebraska, on August, 15, 2012. A UP construction crew works on the new bridge over Southwest B... (more)

An auto train with a fresh SD70ACe-T4 is passing the end of double track west of Kennard, NE on the Blair Subdivision.

A 2x3x1 double empty coal train on the north main track is observing a 25mph speed restriction thru the form B as a B&B gang replaces the old girder bridge on the south main track at Kennard, NE. ... (more)

This train is just west of the Missouri River Bridge on Union Pacific's Blair Subdivision as it heads towards Fremont, NE and points west.

UP train GSBRSE is slowly rolling off of Blair Hill after an hour plus delay to replace a knuckle while climbing the other side of the hill.

The view is off of the Highway 30 overpass as an eastbound descends Arlington Hill and approaches the beginning of double track at what used to be the west end of Kennard siding.

A westbound moves onto single track at the west end of Kennard, NE, between Blair and Fremont. This former C&NW line was a single track bypass around Council Bluffs/Omaha and following the mid-90s... (more)

9031 leads an Eastbound salad shooter across the Blair Sub. This train made up 1/2 of all the trains I saw in a 5 hour period along this line.

An empty grain train rolls thru the Nebraska countryside and down the east slope of Arlington Hill.

The double tracking of UP's Blair Sub came to a halt at West Kennard, where on this fine spring day UP 4307 is entering single track toward Fremont, NE. An eastbound stack train is waiting to go a... (more)

The DPU on a loaded coal train is shoving east at West Kennard, while in the background, the headlight of UP7440 on an empty coal train can be seen under the Highway 30 overpass, awaiting it's tur... (more)