An eastbound manifest train passes through downtown Grand Island. It looks like the locomotive in the middle is wearing a coat of UP's "armour black."

Showing off a nearly complete set of shiny new hoppers, an empty coal train continues west through the plains of central Nebraska

This is the DPU of a loaded coal train that had to stop on main two near Litchfield on account of the crew working their 12 hour maximum. Look closely, and you'll see the van to pick up the crew a... (more)

A nice, clean BN executive locomotive leads a westbound empty coal train around the sharp curve just outside of Mason City

A lone GEVO in front takes an empty coal train through the small town of Mullen

A coal train led by a new GEVO is only minutes away from being released from the yard and taken east through the sand hills of Nebraska.

A westbound empty coal train takes the siding at East Stokes as it passes through what was once a massive tunnel. The BNSF demolished the tunnel and created the trench in 1998 in order to lengthen... (more)

The two locomotives on the front work hard to bring their train up the hill coming into Glendo

This coal train has just begun to pick up speed as it starts going downhill in Parkman

In a scene the horses have probably seen countless times, a coal train with 6 locomotives (2 helpers on the rear) slowly begins going downhill after reaching the summit just outside of Parkman.

An unpatched BN locomotive leads an empty coal train past the sagebrush and badlands common to this area of Montana

In what must be a locomotive without a/c, an engineer is taking a nap. Since this locomotive is an end-of-train helper, his job won't begin for another 30 miles at Fryburg, where helpers are uncou... (more)

To the right of this coal train bound for Superior, WI is the Little Missouri River. The bridge going over it belongs to Interstate 94.

A manifest train passes by the wheat fields and buttes just east of Gladstone. In the foreground is Interstate 94, often quite a lonley road through this area.

The Laurel, MT to Galesburg, IL manifest train moves east with the North Dakota badlands in the background