The wind is blowing dirt across the tracks as UP 5716 (ES44AC) heads towards Chappell, Nebraska leading the Hospital Train of vintage equipment.

FECX 7558 (GP9) can be found working at a silo in Chappell, Nebraska.

UP 8994 (SD70ACe) meets the Union Pacific special 'hospital train' just west of Chappell, Nebraska.

Frenchman Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, flows through southwestern Nebraska. It is also the inspiration for a series of grain elevators in the same part of the state. The Frenchman... (more)

UP 4014 eastbound near Chappell, NE.

UP Big Boy 4014 (4-8-8-4) runs past a large silo at Chappell, Nebraska.

Not the FEC we may all be familiar with, but the multitude of trackside grain elevators across Nebraska often come with their own locomotives. Case in point, Farmers Elevator Co. ex-CR 7558 nee-PR... (more)

Out on the high plains it is a steady procession of traffic this April 1st. The pole with four stripes designates the point as a milepost, in this case 386 - between Chappell and Lodgepole, NE (CQ... (more)

Westbound over the Overland Route #1996 leads the North Platte, NE to Denver North Yard manifest.

North Platte to Pocatello manifest MNPPC-09 is rolling along the UP Trail just west of Chappell, NE on an early March afternoon.

UP 844 wastes no time returning to track speed after its Lodgepole, NE service stop. Here, UP 844 flies east along U.S. 30 near Chappell, NE.

Three EMD motors hustle across the farmlands of Chappell, Nebraska, along the famous UP Overland Route, with a mix freight train from Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE as a team of horses continue... (more)

An empty coal train heads west towards a sunny Wyoming sky after passing under a plains thunderstorm east of Chappell, Nebraska.

From sea to shining sea ... a continent's breadth of (K-Line) containers. This is the new Panama Canal, or "Land Bridge" if you will. Containers and the technology to move them have certainly re... (more)