A crystal clear morning and a clean EMD SD70ACe leader made the walk up onto the highway 77 viaduct in Fremont worthwhile. When I was attending college here 15 years ago, I was used to seeing nea... (more)

This northbound is passing a fixed semaphore located just north of the Platte River bridge. This "blade" is the distant approach signal to the UP diamonds in Fremont, which are about a m... (more)

Spring is at long last sprung as UP 8532 West, the fifth of eight trains in an hour and a quarter (6 UP, 2 BNSF), heads out of town.

Flag Waver: A pair of SD-70Ms and an SD-60M depart Fremont with a westbound manifest.

BNSF 5218 North is moving through Fremont, NE with a consist of hopper cars with canopies - some kind of mash. Parked in the yard are BNSF 2572 and BNSF 1542.

Former CNW 4153, now DBGX 4153 plays hide'n seek between elevator silos and storage tanks at De Bruce Grain, Fremont, NE. Like a cat with nine lives, this 1952 GP7 began life as Wabash 471, became... (more)

The BNSF Fremont local crew has finished their work on this end of town and are returning back toward the depot with this faded B40-8W leading. The second unit is a standard cab B40-8.

A loaded coal train arrives in downtown Fremont on the Overland Route mainline as it crosses the BNSF's line from Lincoln to Sioux City in the distance. They just met a westbound intermodal train... (more)

Run-through freight (CNW train 252, The Rocket) has just arrived from North Platte with UP 6907 leading. UP pulled 6907 and two GP38-2s off leaving CNW 6802 to head the train to Chicago. The UP li... (more)

Basking in the late afternoon sun, UP 521 sits on a side track off Union Pacific's Columbus Subdivision behind the UP depot.

Lost in a field of corn, BNSF 2778 switches out a fertilizer plant surrounded by a corn field, near Fremont Nebraska.

It blocks the view, but it keeps the cab cool ... Rail Switching Service GP30 5001, on lease to Scoular Grain in Fremont, Nebraska (since 2002), features an unusual air conditioner location... (more)

UP 7641 West accelerates out of Fremont, NE.

Seen from the US 77 overpass in downtown Fremont, the local BNSF crew passes a new signal as they head back east after shuffling some cars around on this end of town.

A GP30 sits with a couple of cabooses as a freight with wreck damage cars rolls by. There were no west bound movements from Omaha for several days due to a wheel breaking up at speed and causing a... (more)