A pair of SD40-2s of varied heritage sit in McCook Yard, cooling their wheels over the weekend until called to duty in local service once again on Monday. BNSF Railway 1600 was built by EMD as At... (more)

Eastbound manifest.

BNSF Railway Unit Train U-WGNKRF0-04 makes a stop for a crew change in McCook, the point at which the Railway's Akron Sub changes to the Hastings Sub. BNSF ES44AC 5850 and Norfolk Southern AC44C6... (more)

UP 5395 & 7484 power a westbound stack train.

NS 4470, 1191, & UP 4156 power a westbound mixed freight.

UP 1808 & 1638 lead the eastbound Kearney local.

Nebraska Central 909 at Norfolk Yard

UP 2645, 7214, & 6262 lead an eastbound manifest.

UP 1638 & 1808 power an eastbound Kearney local.

Five locomotives are the cut-in distributed power on a double empty coal train as they descend the 1.7% grade of Crawford Hill. These "double empties" are made up 272 cars at 15,000 ft l... (more)

A pair of SD70ACes have crested the grade of Crawford Hill at Belmont with their 127 car coal train for Halsted, TX as they begin to notch down from Notch 8 to keep the train under 20 MPH. With th... (more)

The afternoon helpers head west back to their base at Crawford after shoving a Halsted, TX bound coal load over Crawford Hill to Belmont. On the nose of the BNSF 9256 is the "HelperLink"... (more)

The Crawford Helpers shove the rear of an eastbound coal load up the 1.7% grade of Crawford Hill as server thunderstorms move across northwestern Nebraska. As the helpers shove up against the DP m... (more)

A pair of 3600 series "Heavies" grind up the grade of Crawford Hill with 136 cars of Wyoming's Black Thunder mine coal for Alabama Power's J.W Miller Plant in Palos, AL. With a year of s... (more)

UP 7708 & NS 7539 lead a 228 car eastbound mixed freight.