Built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in May 1921 as Northeast Oklahoma Railroad 2, this 50-Ton Steeplecab electric locomotive was later owned by Cedar Rapids and Iowa City as their number 40. It passed ... (more)

Highballing along their Hastings Subdivision is BNSF High Priority Merchandise train H-DENLIN1-18A, heading for Lincoln NE from Denver CO. This train has a bit of an eclectic consist, thanks to s... (more)

A single ES44AC pulls a baretable train along Union Pacific’s Clinton Sub, but thanks to run through agreements, the only locomotive on UP train IPRTCR-21 is a Canadian Pacific one, number 8766.... (more)

Rolling to a stop just a mile or so after its crew change because, apparently, they forgot to stock more water on this hot afternoon, is BNSF "High Priority Merchandise" train H-KCKDEN1-... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad has been rebuilding their GE AC6000CW diesels (which the UP dubbed "AC6044AC"s, but this was not what GE put on their builder's plates) into AC4400CWM locomotives ... (more)

Track maintenance on the mainlines through Broken Bow, Nebraska, have caused two eastbound trains to hold in Merna, a few miles to the west. First to arrive was BNSF loaded unit coal train C-EBMM... (more)

BNSF train H-PVOLIN1-21A, a High Priority Merchandise train heading to Lincoln, Nebraska, from Provo, Utah, is already 10 hours 48 minutes behind schedule, giving one pause as to what the railroad... (more)

Held up a bit by a pair of late passenger trains (Amtrak 769 running 10 minutes late, and Metrolink 859 running 8 minutes behind because it had to wait for AMTK 769), BNSF High Priority Freight H-... (more)

Nebraska's Sand Hills are covered in a yellow carpet of wildflowers (fourpoint evening-primrose, Oenothera rhombipetala) as BNSF Railway coal train C-EBMMHS-065A, a loaded coal train headin... (more)

Laying over for the weekend in McCook Yard are a pair of diesels – BNSF SD40-2 1958 and "GP39-3" (ex-GP30) 2548 – which handle duties on locals between here and Brush, Colorado. This SD40-2 w... (more)

Heading east 9 hours 4 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak 6, the California Zephyr heading from Emeryville Ca to Chicago IL, approaches McCook NE on a blistering hot morning. Thirty-one-year-... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s of varied heritage sit in McCook Yard, cooling their wheels over the weekend until called to duty in local service once again on Monday. BNSF Railway 1600 was built by EMD as At... (more)

BNSF Railway Unit Train U-WGNKRF0-04 makes a stop for a crew change in McCook, the point at which the Railway's Akron Sub changes to the Hastings Sub. BNSF ES44AC 5850 and Norfolk Southern AC44C6... (more)

After setting out a string of tank cars in the town of Yuma, BNSF local L-PWR6131-11I continues its westward journey with 33 cars behind "GP39-3" 2548 (built by General Motors Electro-Mo... (more)

On a 97ºF (36ºC) afternoon, a pair of BNSF Railway diesels handling locals out of northeastern Colorado await their next assignment. On the left is "GP39-3" 2549 (originally a 1962-bu... (more)