EMD's attempt to enter the first generation locomotive rebuilding market- note how it rides on a GP frame and trucks.

Conductor of the Blair Turn enjoys the weather on the deck of the 3519 as he waits for four westbounds on the Transcon and a green signal to head home.

CP westbound shot while waiting for UPs ADWI to exit tunnel.

Sioux City- North Platte freight with Operation Redblock unit leading B4296 and 2621.

Adams-Winona train with loads of bulldozers for Fort McCoy heads across the former interlocking site with the original CNW main to Elroy and Madison. The tower sat roughly where the station sign s... (more)

I almost wish this train came by an hour earlier- trailing units were NS 9727 and GCFX 3075- this was my last shot in Seward before heading out for St. Louis.

Westbound Alabama Power empties negotiate the cutoff around Seward, built in 1953 to avoid sharp curves out of the Blue River valley on the old line through town.

Eastbound on ex-SOO main- 2556, 2622 trailing.

Waiting in siding on the congested Fremont line for a parade of westbounds. CNW 6890, UP 3464, UPB 4313 trailing.

Quite a colorful consist on this eastbound- CEFX 3155 and DWP 5908 trailing.

Cresting the hill climbing out of the Blue River valley west of Seward.

Southbound Valley Park, MN-Council Bluffs train waits at the interlocking signal to enter the transcon to Council Bluffs. Trailing unit is CSX BQ23-7 3001- the only time I ever saw one of these cr... (more)

A matched set of CNW SD60s (with 8034, 8054 trailing) haul trailers westbound on the Chicago-Omaha main.

Northbound freight with Heritage I GP60B 343 trailing hits the UP industrial track diamond with the smokestacks of Hormel meat processing in the backdrop.

The CNW's Superior, NE line crossed at a northeasterly diagonal here until 1974.