| Posted by Dan I. on April 12, 2022 | |
Lexington, Nebraska is located about 60 miles or so southeast of North Platte, Nebraska off U.S. Highway 30 with the Union Pacific having parallel tracks in town. The trains fly through Lexington most of the time. Since the Union Pacific generally follows U.S.30 for several hundreds of miles in Nebraska, my wife, before she passed away in 1994, and I would drive U.S. 30 rather than Interstate 80 just so that we could see the scenery and watch the trains including the Nebraska Central. At times, my old 1977 Mack 237-HP truck would race and pace a Union Pacific locomotive every now and again just for fun. On the other end of the State, one place that we really enjoyed watching the Union Pacific trains go through town at a much slower pace was Ogallala, Nebraska especially on the west end of town where I would park my rig overnight near a grainery. If one were to follow the tracks in the picture, they would go through Ogallala eventually. I miss seeing the western part of the country along with the large and small railroads there such as the Nebraska Central. Since I just retired a couple of years ago, I doubt that I will ever see a lot of Western railroads again since I reside in upper East Tennessee near LaFollette. At least, I got the CSX KD Subdivision tracks directly behind my house. Even that has slowed down considerably since CSX went to this "precision railroading" mode. I thought CSX had somewhat abandoned the KD Sub and were routing trains around it mostly due to the steep terrain with help of pushers as I was told. Even the CSX railyard in Corbin, Kentucky looked vacant. Lot of tracks but very few railcars or locomotives. In the last year or so, I have seen a lot more trains on the KD. One good thing is that trains are a lot longer now with a few DPU's scattered the train.
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