UP 8721, 5156, 4054, & 4046 lead a 194 car eastbound manifest.

UP 8689 & 7948 east with a loaded coal train.

UP 5897 & 4539 lead eastbound stacks past the 1943 & the 4141.

A trio of ES44ACs lead an eastbound intermodal train.

UP 1943 & 4141 on display in North Platte.

I am in the cab of Milwaukee Road SD40-2 187, looking out at the various power in the diesel service area at the UP North Platte yard. It was quite an experience for my wife and I to get a VIP to... (more)

The sun has set, but tonnage still rolls east in the form of a Union Pacific stack train passing through a signal bridge at Birdwood just west of UP’s sprawling yard at North Platte, Nebraska, on ... (more)

Operator Jeff Lubash monitors information on the computers in the Diesel Tower above the locomotive servicing area at Union Pacific’s North Platte, Nebraska, yard on May 4, 2011.

Locomotives gather on the diesel service tracks at Union Pacific’s huge yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011.

The last light of day on May 4, 2011, is quickly turning to night as a freight train is classified over East Hump at Union Pacific’s sprawling yard at North Platte, Nebraska.

Union Pacific EMD SD38-2 No. Y810 sits outside waiting for the next train to sort, while East Hump Foreman R.C. McKain catches up on “paperwork” on the lower level of East Hump tower at North Plat... (more)

Several Union Pacific locomotives due for work and servicing are spotted inside the main building at the North Platte Diesel Shop on May 5, 2011. UP No. 9632 is former Southern Pacific GE C44-9W N... (more)

Four flag-barring units bring an empty corn train into North Platte for a recrew on a cool Midwest evening.

While the actual time zone 'line' between mountain and central is west of North Platte (near Paxton, NE) Union Pacific's time change is at the west end of their Bailey yard in North Platte. Having... (more)