The construction continues on the Black Thunder West loadout facility as a train waits off in the distance and BNSF DPUs push East off the main at Reno Jct. The new Black Thunder West load out sil... (more)

The clouds are as common as the trains to the cows along the Powder River Basin.

With the sun getting ready to set, the flowers stretch to get the last rays of the day as a Westbound freight rolls by in the distance.

The 4 track main at the crest of Logan Hill is a incredible place to watch the PRB trains.

Headed West through the Nebraska sandhills to the PRB for a refill.

The conductor stands in the heavy fog under the depot lights getting ready to board his train.

A SD70ACE led Eastbound intermodal flashes by well before sunrise.

NEBRASKA! This is it. Grain elevators, high sun, heat, and high speed Union Pacific freight.

Do you think UP has a copper theft problem? UPRR 2400 VOLTS

A crew member stands off to the side of UP 8116 as UP 5493 rolls East while the crow heads North. The crow may be high enough to watch the sun rise over the horizon but I'm not.

The sun colors the sky before it even rises above the horizon.

Sitting alongside Union Pacific's busy mainline ready to serve it's grain elevator. Another similiarly painted locomotive sits at an other grain elevator a ways West of here.

Tried and true SD40-2 wheel assembly.

Pace Shot: BNSF DPU thunders East along Nebraska Highway 2, just miles from Alliance.

You can see the beginning of a pretty bad storm that hit the area. I saw about 10 or so coal trains parked head to tail on the main for storage. I believe they have been backed up due to the flood... (more)