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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: |
356 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
279 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 5815 |
Description: |
DPUs east and west - comin atcha on the 8027 West and the 5815 shoving away on loaded coal. |
Photo Date: |
3/17/2010 Upload Date: 3/25/2010 10:24:59 PM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5815(AC44CWCTE) UP 6292(AC44CW) |
Views: |
356 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6292 |
Description: |
UP 8027 West gets a ramrod from a DPU unit among a surprising number still in SP colors, albeit patched. |
Photo Date: |
3/17/2010 Upload Date: 3/25/2010 10:29:50 PM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6292(AC44CW) |
Views: |
257 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
523 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6864 West |
Description: |
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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: |
275 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
268 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
254 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
529 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
434 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BNSF 5272 leads a 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: |
402 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
303 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
335 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 6609-III |
Description: |
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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: |
348 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
290 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
344 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
304 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6536 |
Description: |
2+1 grain train comes rolling through CP W312 east of Paxton, NE. |
Photo Date: |
4/15/2010 Upload Date: 4/28/2010 1:00:08 PM |
Location: |
Paxton, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6536(AC44CW) |
Views: |
169 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
277 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
321 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
365 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Catch me if you can |
Description: |
UP 7611 was already whistling for the road crossings 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: |
281 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
UP 7611 Take 2 |
Description: |
UP 7611 passes the wide angle friendly grain 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: |
302 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
276 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
132 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
296 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
133 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
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Locomotives: |
UP 4857(SD70M) UP 6739(AC44CW) |
Views: |
195 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
219 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
517 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
841 Comments: 3 |
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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: |
190 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
156 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
224 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
271 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
313 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
135 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
675 Comments: 5 |
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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: |
384 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
364 Comments: 6 |
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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: |
351 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
334 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
340 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
189 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
422 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
129 Comments: 0 |
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