UP 6590, 8902, & 6253 power westbound empties.

UP 8251 & 5262 lead an eastbound manifest.

UP 7617 & 5450 lead 280 empties west.

UP 4708 is eastbound with track evaluation car EC-5 in tow.

UP 2675, 4208, 5170, & 2707 westbound with a manifest.

UP 2604 powers a westbound unit grain train on main 2.

An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight rolls past the irrigated cornfields of Nebraska at Elm Creek on August 17, 2012.

From the NYC to Husker Country

The Electro-Motive Company (EMC) constructed a batch of fourteen SW1 diesels for New York Central in early 1939. These were numbered NYC 600-613. For... (more)

A long eastbound manifest rolls through Elm Creek in the waning hours of a summer day.

an eastbound manifest freight approaches Elm Creek on Union Pacific's Kearney Subdivision in the last light of day.

UP 6539 leads 2 CSX locomotives on a westbound coal train, passing through Elm Creek, NE. For a little bit, a power plant out east was experimenting with Colorado coal, so this train would go stra... (more)

Passing through the small town of Elm Creek, UP 5511 leads this stack train west along UP's famous Triple Track.

A westbound stack train cruises down main 2 of UP's triple track mainline a few miles west of Elm Creek.

With a short train in tow UP 5920 leads two brethren GEs out of Elm Creek Nebraska, away from the setting sun.

This entire empty hopper train can be seen stretched out through Elm Creek as it is dwarfed by the large grain elevator in town. In charge today is UP 6712, patched Chicago and North Western 8810... (more)