Apparently the Ex-Conrail GP8 at the grain elevator in Tamora, Nebraska needed a little help building air. The folks at the Co-Op strapped an air compressor up on the front pilot.

A variety of older Union Pacific power awaits an uncertain fate in the Missouri Valley, Iowa yard. Within are SD60Ms, C40-8s, C40-8Ws, C44-9Ws, and a few other oddballs.

Union Pacific placed UP 4141 on public display in downtown Omaha, NE from December 9th-12th. On the afternoon of December 12, 2018, 4141 was pulled from the display track. To get back on UP rails,... (more)

An empty coal train coming from Council Bluffs snakes its way up onto the Missouri River Bridge. The old span to the left now serves as River Siding. Trains bound for Council Bluffs or the Bayard ... (more)

Conductor Rich poses on the nose of his SD40-2 as they rock and roll with a grain train in tow.

A former ATSF SD40-2 sits outside the former depot on Marceline, Missouri on display.

A former CNW GP7 now operates on the Nebraska Northwestern Railroad in Chadron, Nebraska. It is seen here sitting in the very active roundhouse still used regularly by the NNW. The conjoining turn... (more)

After turning around the Nebraska Museum train special at the wye in Columbus, UP 951 leads a passenger special Eastbound through North Bend, Nebraska.

4348 sits near the Lincoln Amtrak Station with two track geometry cars in tow.

Because of a derailment on the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision in Ottumwa, Iowa, Amtrak 6 needed an alternate route to Chicago. Union Pacific stepped in and UP 8310 was added to the head end of Amtrak 6 ... (more)

On occasion, BNSF runs short J trains consisting of one unit, and 2-4 Boeing 737 fuselages from Kansas City, to Pasco, Washington. This northbound train raced west (compass north) on the BNSF Sain... (more)

The Nebraska Museum train pounds the BNSF diamond in Fremont on the return trip back to Omaha Union Station.

Due to extensive flooding in Eastern Nebraska as well as a bomb cyclone in Western Nebraska, Amtrak combined two days worth of Eastbound California Zephyrs in Lincoln, NE this morning. Thursday's ... (more)

Two E9s and an SD70AH lead a sharp looking passenger consist for the Union Pacific Museum. It can be seen here passing through Valley, Nebraska on a beautiful summer afternoon.

Seeing two ATSF bluebonnets 22 years after Santa Fe merged is something that can only happen in a few places on the BNSF system. One of those places is Havelock Yard. Power is stored here and used... (more)