Not long after sunrise on the last day of 2025, a lengthy eastbound stack and manifest train hustles through North Bend, Nebraska as a short signal protects the adjacent siding.

Leased to the Frontier Cooperative Company's grain elevator in rural Nebraska is the former Belt Railway of Chicago GP7 473. After the BRC disposed of this Geep, it became Merchants Despatch Tran... (more)

The fields have turned brown as the seasons inexorably turn. UP 6618 leads westbound empties back to the Powder River mines in the fall of '99. Velvia.

An eastbound UP freight train rolls by on the high iron as Frontier Cooperative's GP7 shoves a cut of loaded hopper cars down the elevator track in North Bend, NE on a frosty January morning. The ... (more)

Shortly after a MOW cleared the mainline, an eastbound Union Pacific Z train passes an ex BRC GP7 at Frontier CO-OP still wearing its original paint and number.

An eastbound UP manifest traverses a landscape once traveled by immense herds of buffalo hunted by plains Indians, wagons filled with pioneers on the Oregon trail, surveyors and builders of the fi... (more)

A former Belt Railway of Chicago GP7 stretches its legs on a frosty winter morning, loading grain cars for Frontier Cooperative in North Bend, NE.

An eastbound empty autorack train rolls through the foggy and frosty Platte River valley between North Bend and Fremont, NE.

Train NPPR with the United Way unit 3300 and 3301 are rolling thru North Bend, NE.

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

Union Pacific 8137 races into a patch of beautiful sunlight leading a colorful manifest Eastbound.

UP 1996 and 2 CSX units pass miles of corn fields in the middle of nowhere, NE.

On a mild afternoon foretelling of spring but with an environment still very much subdued with shades of brown, UP 6803 heads across the flatlands bound for North Platte.

UP X844 throws a large plume of smoke as it pulls a passenger special westward near North Bend, NE.

Six engines on the head end and one DP on the rear protect this westbound stack train on the Columbus Subdivision while passing various farming industries in North Bend, NE.