MJRX 1021 is an SD20 assigned to handle switching at the Farmland Service Grain Elevator at Gothenburg, NE. The unit was built as an SD24 for Southern Railway in January 1960. It was sold to Illin... (more)

Dwarfed by the massive Farmland Service Co-op grain elevator in Gothenburg, Nebraska, is the engine that services it - M. Ryan Railway Service Contractors "SD20" 1021. Built in January ... (more)

MJRX 1021 makes a fine grain elevator switcher at the large elevator along the UP main at Gothenburg, NE. Built in January 1960 as Southern Ry. SD24 no. 6315, it was acquired by Illinois Central a... (more)

As a Thunderstorm forms in the distance, UP 8551 and 2 other units slowly move through Gothenburg, NE on the UP Overland Route. This train stopped about a mile or 2 down the line due to some sort ... (more)

Union Pacific's eastbound Grand Island Hauler pauses for work with the giant Gothenburg, NE grain elevator towering over the scene. The elevator switcher in the background is MJRX SD20 #1021. MJRX... (more)

A UP-Ferromex unit grain train rolls eastbound through Gothenburg, Neb., on the afternoon of Oct. 30 having just left North Platte earlier in the day.

UP 7423 leads an intermodal train through Gothenburg, Nebraska.

A UP local was headed west near Gothenburg

Grain train headed west.

A late afternoon at Gothenburg finds this grain train sitting in the elevator track, with the appearance of being ready for departure.

An early challenger at speed along highway 30. No photographer listed on slide.

A grain truck at Gothenburg, Nebraska, waits for an eastbound Union Pacific train to clear on July 3, 1986. Class CA-13 caboose No. 24516, a bay window car acquired from the Rock Island, trails th... (more)

UP SD9043MAC 8149 trails as the DPU of a eastbound manifest coming into the town of Gothenburg.

The Grand Island local has some work at Gothenburg to complete, before heading home. Always good to see SD40-2's on the mainline!

HERE WE GO! After slowing to look over the stopped mixed freight on main 1 for a break in the train as they went into emergency just east of Gothenburg, the engineer Pulls out on the throttle and ... (more)