UP 2693 leads a westbound intermodal train on UP's Columbus Subdivision.

CNW 4162 wearing its final CNW color scheme has found a new life switching the elevator at Silver Creek, NE, adjacent to Union Pacific's mainline west from Omaha. Ten years after the UP-CNW merger... (more)

UP 7622, 5096, & 6273 are westbound with what I think is a unit train of frac sand.

UP 6611 leads a westbound empty coal train past Frontier COOP, one of the many elevators one will see while driving Hwy 30.

UP 2649 brings up the rear of the eastbound salad shooter.

An eastbound UP train out of North Platte is heading east across eastern Nebraska to be interchange with the CNW near Council Bluffs. Silver Creek is located between Columbus and Grand Island.

Signals stand guard over the Union Pacific mainline at milepost 101.2 in Silver Creek, Nebraska, as the sun sets on May 15th, 2013.

Pacing eastbound along Hwy 30.

Coming across UP 1982 working as the DPU of a westbound stack train was a nice surprise. Here it's seen resting from its labors as it waits out congestion due to a tie replacement project up ahea... (more)

The Platte Valley Terminal sits on UP's Overland Route and uses a GP7 to shuttle cars.

The Frontier Cooperative Company's Silver Creek elevator looms over their ex-CNW (former CRI&P) GP7 as it awaits the next unit train from Uncle Pete.

Someone decided that Union Pacific needed a new silver logo on the side of their locomotive.

Pace shot of UP 8116 as it blows thru a green signal heading West.

Two fans grab a shot of Challenger 3985 from the shoulder of Route 30 as it heads east across the Nebraska plains. A fast-approaching westbound manifest, led by UP 4005, can be seen in the distanc... (more)

Immediately after the Challenger passed (the train can be seen near the signal in the distance), UP 4005 and two sisters blast westward with a manifest, passing the Platte Vally Terminal grain ele... (more)