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The ubiquitous coal train of the West
Title:  The ubiquitous coal train of the West
Description:  UP 5637 rolls along the Colorado River enroute Denver and beyond.
Photo Date:  7/5/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:09:12 PM
Location:  Yarmony, CO
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5637(AC44CWCTE) UP 6215(AC44CW)
Views:  536   Comments: 2
UP 6052
Title:  UP 6052
Description:  Westbound manifest departing Fremont at near sundown on a December afternoon.
Photo Date:  12/17/2011  Upload Date: 12/19/2011 7:01:43 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6052(AC44CWCTE) UP 6224(AC44CW) UP 5764(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  485   Comments: 0
UP 6077
Title:  UP 6077
Description:  160 car eastbound manifest rolling past the ABS signals between Mercer and Valley
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 10:21:20 PM
Location:  Mercer, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6077(AC44CWCTE) UP 7054(AC44CW) UP 8125(SD9043MAC) UP 7238(AC44CW) UP 6284(AC44CW) UP 5892(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  873   Comments: 2
UP 5749 East
Title:  UP 5749 East
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/9/2012 11:57:15 PM
Location:  Woodbine, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5749(AC44CWCTE) UP 6284(AC44CW) UP 8363(SD70ACe)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
UP 6788
Title:  UP 6788
Description:  UP 6788 drops down the Boyer River valley with a short manifest; shot from the US 30 overpass.
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/10/2012 12:09:02 AM
Location:  Logan, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6788(AC44CW) UP 7004(AC44CW) UP 6304(AC44CW) UP 4656(SD70M) UP 3866(SD70M)
Views:  927   Comments: 2
UP 6788 West
Title:  UP 6788 West
Description:  After meeting a coal train at Missouri Valley, the 6788 West heads down the single track toward Council Bluffs, passing beneath the old IC overpass.
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/10/2012 12:09:57 AM
Location:  Loveland, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6788(AC44CW) UP 7004(AC44CW) UP 6304(AC44CW) UP 4656(SD70M) UP 3866(SD70M)
Views:  941   Comments: 0
UP 6864 West
Title:  UP 6864 West
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/9/2012 11:58:53 PM
Location:  Woodbine, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6864(AC44CW) UP 6326(AC44CW) UP 7136(AC44CW)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
Clipped wings
Title:  Clipped wings
Description:  UP 6779 departs Fremont on a spring afternoon. The dimuntive UP shield sure lacks the appeal of the classic wings.
Photo Date:  6/15/2011  Upload Date: 1/27/2012 12:25:56 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6779(AC44CW) UP 6338(AC44CW)
Views:  472   Comments: 1
UP 5913 West
Title:  UP 5913 West
Description:  Empty coalie cruising thru MoVal
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 12:21:57 AM
Location:  Missouri Valley, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5913(AC44CWCTE) UP 6375(AC44CW)
Views:  443   Comments: 2
UP 6800
Title:  UP 6800
Description:  Heading into the sundown
Photo Date:  1/4/2012  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:25:23 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6800(AC44CW) UP 6379(AC44CW) CSX 7505(C40-8)
Views:  780   Comments: 2
UP 6800 West
Title:  UP 6800 West
Description:  After the mega-mergers of the 90s one would often see UP, SP and CNW units running trio; here a CSX interloper lends a hand to a westbound on its way toward North Platte.
Photo Date:  1/4/2012  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:25:19 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6800(AC44CW) UP 6379(AC44CW) CSX 7505(C40-8)
Views:  695   Comments: 0
BNSF 5272 leadsZa coal train
Title:  BNSF 5272 leadsZa coal train
Description:  The DPU units on this outfit were BNSF 736, UP 6615 and BNSF 5364.
Photo Date:  4/24/2011  Upload Date: 1/26/2012 1:12:41 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5272(C44-9W) UP 4006(SD70M) UP 6393(AC44CW) SP 329(AC44CW)
Views:  685   Comments: 1
UP 6609 West-I
Title:  UP 6609 West-I
Description:  A westbound starting out of Fremont in the last rays of sunlight on a January afternoon.
Photo Date:  1/10/2012  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:57:51 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6609(AC44CW) UP 6399(AC44CW)
Views:  490   Comments: 1
UP 6609-II
Title:  UP 6609-II
Description:  Smokin it up
Photo Date:  1/10/2012  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:57:41 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6609(AC44CW) UP 6399(AC44CW)
Views:  526   Comments: 1
UP 6609-III
Title:  UP 6609-III
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/10/2012  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:57:25 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6609(AC44CW) UP 6399(AC44CW)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
Fallen Flag
Title:  Fallen Flag
Description:  UP 6716 still bears the colors of its original owner - at the head-end of OMAX empties leaving town.
Photo Date:  9/26/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 2:33:05 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6716(AC44CW) UP 6507(AC44CW)
Views:  475   Comments: 1
Just another coal train
Title:  Just another coal train
Description:  Coal trains in this region are nearly as prevalent as flies at a summer picnic. This outfit#is proceeding through the west leg of the wye at Missouri Valley and will head north towards Sioux City.
Photo Date:  1/28/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 3:50:09 PM
Location:  Missouri Valley, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5667(AC44CWCTE) UP 6532(AC44CW)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
Along the UP Trail
Title:  Along the UP Trail
Description:  UP 6535 has another coalie rocking west through Ames.
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:15:49 AM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6535(AC44CW) UP 5806(AC44CWCTE) UP 7094(AC44CW)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
Just a workhorse GE
Title:  Just a workhorse GE
Description:  Bearing a road number reminding one of DD-40AXs, another coalie departs Fremont for Wyoming.
Photo Date:  10/4/2011  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:16:25 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6939(AC4460CW) UP 6583(AC44CW) UP 5843(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  516   Comments: 2
Underway
Title:  Underway
Description:  Horn blowing, crossing gate bell sounding, UP 6939 with NSPX empties notches out.
Photo Date:  10/4/2011  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:16:14 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6939(AC4460CW) UP 6583(AC44CW) UP 5843(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  531   Comments: 2
From out of the sundown
Title:  From out of the sundown
Description:  UP 6666 with yet more coal loads heads east in the evening sweet light past sunflowers and the communications lines that have succumbed to progress with the extension of CTC along this portion of the railroad.
Photo Date:  7/8/2009  Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:54:49 PM
Location:  Silver Creek, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6666(AC44CW) UP 6613(AC44CW)
Views:  622   Comments: 0
Catch me if you can
Title:  Catch me if you can
Description:  UP 7611 was already whistling for the road c|ossings in Fremont as it departed town and I had to kick the Harley into high gear to overtake it at Troxel, a few miles west of town.
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:07:28 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7611(AC45CCTE) NS 9240(C40-9W) UP 6633(AC44CW)
Views:  513   Comments: 2
UP 7611 Take 2
Title:  UP 7611 Take 2
Description:  UP 7611 passes the wide angle friendly gra`n elevator at Troxel.
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:09:30 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7611(AC45CCTE) NS 9240(C40-9W) UP 6633(AC44CW)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
Overland Route
Title:  Overland Route
Description:  UP 6664 leads a North Platte-bound manifest out the steel highway across the plains.
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:12:56 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6664(AC44CW) UP 2451(SD60M) UP 6634(AC44CW)
Views:  554   Comments: 0
UP 6671 East.
Title:  UP 6671 East.
Description:  Manifest kicking up the snow.
Photo Date:  12/8/2011  Upload Date: 12/10/2011 1:24:07 AM
Location:  Missouri Valley, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6671(AC44CW)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
UP 6702-I
Title:  UP 6702-I
Description:  The coal pipeline continues with an OPPX load moving into Fremont behind UP 6702 and company.
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:20:07 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6702(AC44CW) UP 6758(AC44CW)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
Patch job
Title:  Patch job
Description:  The DPU on this coal load seems to be ex-CNW 8804.
Photo Date:  10/4/2011  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:32:02 PM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6706(AC44CW)
Views:  184   Comments: 1
On the roll
Title:  On the roll
Description:  UP 4857 is twenty minutes behind UP 6664 West with another consist for North Platte s receiving yard.
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:22:13 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4857(SD70M) UP 6739(AC44CW)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
Into the October sundown
Title:  Into the October sundown
Description:  UP 4857 again
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:22:02 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4857(SD70M) UP 6739(AC44CW)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
UP 5968 West
Title:  UP 5968 West
Description:  Just another coalie.
Photo Date:  3/24/2012  Upload Date: 3/26/2012 12:13:55 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5968(AC44CWCTE) UP 6759(AC44CW)
Views:  686   Comments: 2
Something for everyone
Title:  Something for everyone
Description:  You see some movement off by the distant horizon, catch a glimpse of a headlight, see a consist snaking down onto the high plains and then it disappears. A short while later the locomotive pokes over the swell in the landscape and bears down upon your vantage point. This eastbound manifest at Diablo may not have a KCS Belle, but the current-day "big four" are represented in this wild power consist.
Photo Date:  4/8/2010  Upload Date: 4/20/2010 12:25:29 PM
Location:  Canyon Diablo, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5753(ES44AC) NS 9114(C40-9W) BNSF 8220(SD75M) UP 6761(AC44CW) BNSF 4890(C44-9W)
Views:  1290   Comments: 3
UP 5716 East cruises through Ames, NE.
Title:  UP 5716 East cruises through Ames, NE.
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:05:26 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5716(AC44CWCTE) UP 3786(SD70M) UP 6809(AC44CW) UP 8002(SD9043MAC) UP 8487(SD70ACe) UP 7784(AC45CCTE)
Views:  895   Comments: 0
Spring on the prairie
Title:  Spring on the prairie
Description:  UP 6845 rolls west at Shell Creek, NE near Schuyler.
Photo Date:  4/29/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 11:52:32 AM
Location:  Shell Creek, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6845(AC44CW)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
One banger
Title:  One banger
Description:  UP 6848 is all alone at the point of this westbound manifest; albeit with one more on the rear-end.
Photo Date:  10/4/2011  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:35:07 PM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6848(AC44CW)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
Double-tracking
Title:  Double-tracking
Description:  As UP 7920 West moves out No.1 track, UP 6857 on westbound emtpies begins to overtake it on No.2 track. It has two more units on the rear.
Photo Date:  9/7/2010  Upload Date: 9/8/2010 2:32:24 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6857(AC44CW)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
UP 6864
Title:  UP 6864
Description:  A westbound ethanol train with a couple ACs still in SP paint accelerates through Missouri Valley, IA
Photo Date:  1/12/2010  Upload Date: 3/15/2010 1:35:19 PM
Location:  Missouri Valley, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6864(AC44CW)
Views:  362   Comments: 1
Some you win
Title:  Some you win
Description:  An eastbound coal train departs Fremont just in time to clear the view for UP5755 starting out of town with another manifest during a run of ten trains in just over two hours.
Photo Date:  8/30/2010  Upload Date: 8/31/2010 8:57:19 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5755(AC44CWCTE) UP 6877(AC44CW)
Views:  515   Comments: 1
Fremont crossing
Title:  Fremont crossing
Description:  UP 6999 East rolls into Fremont as a southbound BNSF manifest with UP power waits its turn to proceed.
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 12:19:18 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6999(AC44CW)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
Afternoon chaser
Title:  Afternoon chaser
Description:  When you catch a clean unit and action otherwise seems slow, go with what cha know. UP 5131 passes the block signal east of Arlington, NE on the home stretch to Fremont.
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/28/2010 10:46:05 PM
Location:  Arlington, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5131(SD70M) UP 7006(AC44CW)
Views:  855   Comments: 5
Afternoon Chaser-II
Title:  Afternoon Chaser-II
Description:  UP 5131 in another view approaching Arlington, NE
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:14:36 AM
Location:  Arlington, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5131(SD70M) UP 7006(AC44CW)
Views:  547   Comments: 1
Hawkeye-land to Husker-land
Title:  Hawkeye-land to Husker-land
Description:  UP 5131 rumbles across the Missouri River crossing into Nebraska from Iowa on the former C&NW Omaha by-pass to Fremont, via Blair, that is primarily a westbound route.
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/29/2010 11:24:33 AM
Location:  Blair, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5131(SD70M) UP 7006(AC44CW)
Views:  537   Comments: 6
Damn Trees
Title:  Damn Trees
Description:  Of course in steam days cinders would have cleared the treeline. Nowadays foliage encroaches upon open scenes along the right of way in many places. A westbound manifest crosses the Missouri River and the state line between Iowa and Nebraksa upon this gorgeous former C&NW span. I will still take spring over winter.
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/28/2010 10:29:56 PM
Location:  Blair, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5131(SD70M) UP 7006(AC44CW)
Views:  515   Comments: 2
Symphony in spring green and armour yellow
Title:  Symphony in spring green and armour yellow
Description:  UP 5131 finally gets out of Fremont after a crew change.
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:28:26 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5131(SD70M) UP 7006(AC44CW)
Views:  497   Comments: 2
Vernal fields
Title:  Vernal fields
Description:  Mid-afternoons have had some lengthy lulls lately. I waited at the Route 30 overpass for awhile, then rode east into Iowa looking for a train. This fellow had left Missouri Valley and I caught it crossing the Missouri, then scooted back out to the overpass west of Kennard to catch it at this nice vantage point. Things are looking more green. About time!
Photo Date:  4/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/28/2010 10:40:53 PM
Location:  Kennard, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5131(SD70M) UP 7006(AC44CW)
Views:  531   Comments: 1
Idle Thoughts
Title:  Idle Thoughts
Description:  BNSF 4865 snarls past the BNSF depot in Fremont, NE. Few are the remaining depots from the passenger train era - when one could find a comfortable accommodation on a bench or fence railing and watch the activity - the Rwy. Express and mail carts, the operator/agent at his desk with flimsies, order hoops and lanterns, ticket stamps; all of the hustle and bustle that accompanied passenger train movements and the nature of railroading as it once was.
Photo Date:  10/4/2011  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:24:22 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4865(C44-9W) UP 7008(AC44CW)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
One thing is for certain...
Title:  One thing is for certain...
Description:  if you are in Nebraska, you are going to see coal trains. Plenty of coal trains - most of em 135 cars long. More empties roll west.
Photo Date:  9/26/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 2:34:31 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7911(AC45CCTE) UP 5560(AC44CWCTE) UP 7113(AC44CW)
Views:  684   Comments: 1
Autumn in the Heartland
Title:  Autumn in the Heartland
Description:  UP 7128 has a 200 car manifest with DPU power mid-train.
Photo Date:  10/15/2012  Upload Date: 11/1/2012 9:34:50 AM
Location:  Mercer, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7128(AC44CW)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
UP 8531-II
Title:  UP 8531-II
Description:  And the earth trembles with raw power gripping steel rails.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:35:14 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8531(SD70ACe) UP 7131(AC44CW) UP 8661(SD70ACe)
Views:  481   Comments: 1
Sunflower season
Title:  Sunflower season
Description:  Sunflowers abound this time of year and border the right of way at Ames, NE as UP7159 heads into the sundown with yet another manifest.
Photo Date:  8/30/2010  Upload Date: 8/31/2010 9:02:06 AM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7159(AC44CW)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
UP 7196 West
Title:  UP 7196 West
Description:  One of several manifests that were running east and west this early summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:40:52 PM
Location:  Dunlap, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7196(AC44CW)
Views:  274   Comments: 0

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