This is video from around 8am Tuesday, August 10, 2010 and is taken from the Transfer Road/Pierce Butler bridge overlooking the Minnesota Commercial Midway yard. There are walking platforms on both sides of the bridge. I had just missed the Amtrak. Featured is a locomotive gathering cars (perhaps for the Hugo line?) another locomotive coming [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Locomotives category.
Eastbound Coal Train Picture Sequence
The following is a sequence of photos taken June 4, 2009, in Fremont, Nebraska of an eastbound Union Pacific coal train. There were two engines in front and one trailing. I was able to gather engine information just by doing a Google search for keywords “Union Pacific 5967″ and “Union Pacific 6684.” As always, RailPictures.net [...]
Continuing on with YouTube… another BNSF (but less windy)
I was so ecstatic blogging about my first video posted to YouTube, I didn’t really think about telling the story. When I was back in Nebraska a few weeks ago, my friend, Grant, and I spent an afternoon train-watching around Fremont. Our first trip was north on Luther Road to Nickerson, where the road crossed [...]










