The largest steam locomotive ever built splits the signals and races across Nebraska from N. Platte to Grand Island.

UP 6595, 5794, & 5340 with an eastbound manifest.

UP 8035, 5357, 7805, 6442, 6643, 6357, 6463, 2539, & 5414 lead an eastbound mixed freight.

UP 4478 headed to North Platte with the Lexington based local.

UP 8146 & 6349 with an eastbound loaded coal train.

UP 8955 & 8052 eastbound with a stack train.

As thunderstorms build in the east a UP westbound races towards North Platte.

I suppose if locomotives could talk this NS SD70ACU would be saying that this territory looks familiar as it was built as UP SD9043MAC 8142. Westbound UP heads for North Platte with a NS leader.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A westbound Union Pacific grain train enters Buttermilk Curve on the east side of the village of Brady. An evening spent here produced a number of westbounds and a couple eastbounds. The next day,... (more)

A traffic jam on the country's busiest railroad is brewing. An empty coal train waits for its slot to run back to the Powder River Basin while a loaded coal train slowly rolls as traffic ahead has... (more)

A westbound UP Manifest rolls into Brady, just 20 miles east of Bailey Yard in North Platte. With a big logjam of eastbounds exiting the yard and many many tied down empty coal trains ahead, it wo... (more)

#844 is on the second leg of the Shiloh Limited run, after Council Bluffs, it will have the complete train. Just out of frame is an eastbound that would have blocked the shot any sooner.

Eastbound on the Kearney Sub.

UP SD70AH no. 8885 rolls a unit pipe train west just out of Brady, NE about 20 minutes east of North Platte on the three track mainline along U. S. Hwy. 30. Note the fancy green flag.