UP 3881 leads KCS, BNSF and another UP unit on westbound auto racks passing Ames, NE.

A former C&NW SD50 leads two Conrail visitors out the Council Bluffs Sub passing Ames, NE. Fuji Astia.

UP 5338 leads a westbound through Ames, NE on a November afternoon. UP called these units C45ACCTEs, as opposed to the second unit 6595 that was an AC4400CW of earlier build date.

MASNP-14, usually running via the Marysville Sub, has detoured via the Falls City Sub from KC to Omaha and thence west into the flatlands.

A pair of 60Ms leading a 60 car American President Lines stacker are running No.2 track to get around lower priority traffic. At this time there was a 20 mile segment of CTC west of Fremont, NE, o... (more)

In 1994 C&NW is still an independent operation, although dependent upon UP for its livelihood to a large extent. UP functioned as a bridge line for Powder River coal traffic between South Morrill,... (more)

CWFBT-5 hurries back to the Black Thunder Mine behind a couple of C&NW DC units as it crosses the flatlands of eastern Nebraska. Fuji Sensia.

UP 7074 West has a relatively short string of reefers as it clears the control point at CP49, Best, on a summer afternoon. Descendants of the once ubiquitous orange Pacific Fruit Express ice bunke... (more)

A westbound is seen just east of Ames, IA.

A westbound UP train has kicked up some drifting snow on a breezy and chilly March day. Today the warehouse is still there but the elevator is gone.

It's a cold and windy winter day as a loaded Nipsco coal train rolls east on UP's Overland Route in Nebraska near CP Best. During the early 1990's C&NW power was seen on the point between North Pl... (more)

TACHCR's train is mostly engulfed in blowing snow as it approaches Fremont, NE on UP's Overland route, about one month before the C&NW acquisition.

UP 5593 leads a string of some 70 loaded racks west. Slowly spring approaches and soon things will be a bit greener, thus ameliorating some of the blandness of the flat lands.

Sometimes you gotta go with the classics... a UP train splitting a pair of signals in the great plains at sunrise.

FEVR 1219 south-west bound outside of Ames,NE