BNSF 8583 runs along the Salt Creek with a coal train in tow. This is where the Salt Creek meets the Platte River outside of Ashland.

A UP double stack train heads west in the last of the afternoon light.

After being run around by a stack train, a westbound manifest is about to get underway again toward Cheyenne as storms continue to rumble overhead and a rainbow appears. I certainly wouldn't consi... (more)

I was feeling more than just a little nostalgia as we paced this trio of SD40-2s along Highway 30 between Maxwell and North Platte, NE.

After enjoying a nice meal at Ole's Big Game Bar & Grill in Paxton, we started to make our way back to North Platte. By Sutherland we were hearing reports of tennis ball sized hail and it was obv... (more)

A beautiful sunset and threatening skies accompany an eastbound hotshot as it races toward Ogallala and North Platte.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s when Armour Yellow SD40-2s ruled the Union Pacific. I was feeling like a kid again as we chased three of them along the Overland Route on a beautiful summer afternoon... (more)

Leading the turn to Grand Island back toward North Platte, three SD40-2s make for a fine sight under puffy cumulus clouds at Brady.

UP 5264 is west bound into North Platte afte passing a loaded coal train just outside of town on the triple track mainline.

The North Platte, NE to Fort Collins, CO manifest heads west just east of Potter, NE on a scorching July afternoon.

Three GE's lead this westbound North Platte to Pocatello manifest (MNPPC 19) as it rounds the curve west of Sidney, NE.

A quiet moment finds dawn’s early sun rays highlighting the rails radiating off East Hump at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 5, 2011. All too soon, another Union Pacific freight train will be cla... (more)

Union Pacific Challenger No. 3985 smokes westbound west of Sunol (east of Sidney), Nebraska, on October 9, 2008.

An employee in Union Pacific’s North Platte Diesel Shop works on GE C44-9W No. 9632 on May 4, 2011. UP No. 9632 is the former Southern Pacific No. 8168.

UP 5791 is the DPU on an eastbound loaded coal train.