As thunderstorms build in the east a UP westbound races towards North Platte.

UP 1943 & 7039 lead an eastbound train of rocket boosters for NASA.

BNSF 9065 & 9893 power westbound empties.

BNSF 5813 & 5628 power westbound empties.

Most days one could just sit by the tracks and watch coal trains go past like a steady procession, loaded or empty. It's a crisp and clear December afternoon as the 8051 arrives in Fremont with a ... (more)

Lots of yellow locomotives wait for the call of duty at Union Pacific's Bailey Yard.

CNW 8638 West is pouring on the power for Arlington hill as the train departs Kennard, NE on a winter's day.

A machinist checks the progress of the axle one wheel of a GE ES44AC that he is carefully cutting with a lathe on the wheel track inside the Diesel Shop at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard at North P... (more)

Burlington Northern GP20 2047 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Chicago Burlington & Quincy 911 in February 1961. When the CB&Q merged with Great Northern, Northern Pacific a... (more)

BNSF 6360, 8586, & 9386 with westbound empties.

BNSF 528 waiting for its next assignment on the local.

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 1996 displays its colorful Daylight colors in its Southern Pacific heritage scheme at the locomotive facility at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011... (more)

I suppose if locomotives could talk this NS SD70ACU would be saying that this territory looks familiar as it was built as UP SD9043MAC 8142. Westbound UP heads for North Platte with a NS leader.

There really is a guy that repairs locomotive toilets
Certainly doing a thankless job, a Union Pacific employee at the Diesel Shop in North Platte, Nebraska, repairs a locomotive toilet... (more)

Locomotives really are washed once in a while
A Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC gets a thorough cleaning before heading into the main shop for an overhaul on Track 2 at the east side buildi... (more)