A westbound moves onto single track at the west end of Kennard, NE, between Blair and Fremont. This former C&NW line was a single track bypass around Council Bluffs/Omaha and following the mid-90s... (more)

CWFBT-5 hurries back to the Black Thunder Mine behind a couple of C&NW DC units as it crosses the flatlands of eastern Nebraska. Fuji Sensia.

At the time, the thought of a coal train being nostalgic would have seemed ridiculous. The years have not been kind to the coal business and thus scenes such as this, that were once as common as c... (more)

For a couple of years UP experimented with using fuel "tenders" to reduce fueling stops. Four tank cars were modified and ran between two unit sets. The program did not succeed as the fo... (more)

If bleak it is nevertheless a relatively mild winter day as a double-stack train gets underway after a crew change in Missouri Valley, IA.

Shortly before the bottom fell out of the economy, never to fully return insofar as rail traffic, UP 4668 has re-crewed and is preparing to head for North Platte.

UP 7074 West has a relatively short string of reefers as it clears the control point at CP49, Best, on a summer afternoon. Descendants of the once ubiquitous orange Pacific Fruit Express ice bunke... (more)

The former C&NW 8816 with another patched unit from the SP lead a manifest out of Fremont, NE on a lovely late summer afternoon.

Coal trains for the Jeffrey, KS power plant, accessed off UP's Marysville Sub at Aikins, ran with pooled UP and BN power, as they were interchanged to/from BN at Northport, NE. Here westbound &quo... (more)

On the home stretch into North Platte's receiving yard, symbol MKSNP-15 out of Kansas City slips through the control point at Keith, NE on a late winter afternoon. The newly installed third mainli... (more)

Valley Park, MN to North Platte manifest MVPNP-8 rolls past Wagner Mills in Schuyler, NE on an early spring afternoon. Those yellow Union Pacific Fruit Express reefers still proliferated, as well... (more)

With a new crew on-board, the 8817 West is ready to power up for the trip to North Platte. The second unit, SP 8668, was originally a CB&Q unit that eventually found its way to the Espee and was r... (more)

In the days before triple-tracking, the double mains here were virtually always hot rail. C&NW 8513 storms through Kearney, NE with westbound empties returning to the Powder River from the Pleasan... (more)

UP 8869 gets underway for North Platte after a crew change in Fremont, NE.

Just another amongst the endless parade of traffic that passed through Fremont, NE before traffic volumes essentially bit the dust in late 2008; former CNW SD-60 No. 8011 in its new UP paint is ab... (more)