A late winter day along the Sidney Sub in western Nebraska finds a predominantly C&NW power set leading 12,000 ton West Colton manifest MNPWC-9 towards Cheyenne. Fuji Astia.

UP 8975, 8116, 8219, 1989, 7773, & 8521 lead a westbound.

BNSF 6414, 6088, & 9351 lead a westbound mixed freight.

BNSF 5753, 6243, & 6106 with westbound empties.

A pair of SD70ACes, BNSF 9071 & 8593, power westbound empties.

BNSF 4237 & 3861 lead westbound auto racks.

One of these is not like the others..... While the BNSF is busy repainting their older units in the Heritage III paint scheme (the 'Swoosh') there is one veteran still wearing its paint from 1974... (more)

UP 7865 & 2561 with an eastbound intermodal train.

Union Pacific's Big Boy engineer Ed Dickens pilots the locomotive as it runs towards Omaha for the College Baseball World Series.

A rather eclectic lash up rolls east at the entrance to corn country (as opposed to cow country) near Anselmo, NE. AFSF 5009 is a 1966 SD40 that was rebuilt as an SD40u. The fuel tender and SD40-2... (more)

UP 7188, 7676, 4114, & 4917 westbound with a mixed freight.

UP 2625 & CP 8738 westbound with a unit grain train.

Out in the sunflower vastness of the Nebraska Sandhills, BN 5584 leads a set of DC power on an eastbound coal train through cow country west of Mullen.

Being centrally located on the Union Pacific system, Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, is a busy place and processes trains day and night, all week—all year. On the eve of May 4, 2011, boxc... (more)

Push! A eastbound train of black Wyoming low sulphur coal is shoved up the 1.55% grade of Crawford Hill. One of the few places that is still untouched by urban sprawl, perhaps one of the ... (more)