On a cool Fall day, the twice-weekly Beatrice local heads South towards Beatrice. This line only sees these locals and the occasional grain train.
After leading the transfer to the BNSF yard the night before, these two former BNSF units make their way back into the yard of their new leasers, KCS.
BNSF 662 leads the Lincoln-Hastings manifest through a completely white landscape. This area is beautiful during the Summer with wildflowers and cornfields but in the Winter the landscape is dead.
BNSF 9266 leads TXUX loads up the hill as fall colors are just beginning.
A stacked lashup leads the JHMX coal train in the late afternoon at the start of the BNSF Ravenna Sub.
A Union Pacific manifest bound for West Colton Yard is on the final leg of its journey as it heads downhill on the Palmdale Cutoff on Cajon Pass.
The Fall colors begin in Nebraska as BNSF 4290 leads a manifest after the last of the clouds drift South.
A nice unlikely surprise, the older leading the newer. An SD40-2 leads an ET44AH on a BNSF autorack train through the Twin Cities, just leaving Northtown yard.
I was lucky enough to have this train pass right after high sun hours. This thing hasn't had a CP leader in a long time so this is a treat.
A rarity around these parts, a barn unit leads H WLMKCK1 11A just outside of Lincoln towards its final destination of Kansas City.
6988 is out in the country but will soon arrive in Mitchellville.
BNSF 7811 and a trailing fakebonnet lead a presumably loaded grain train South down the hill.
TXU Energy coal trains heads past the Pella Road overpass on Firth Hill.
CN L573 with a rare non-CN leader takes a brief pause in Denison yard to swap crews with L572 before continuing towards Council Bluffs.
The usual SD60 power leads L573 towards Council Bluffs.