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Ashland, Nebraska, BNSF crew change.
Ashland is between Omaha and Lincoln on BNSF right-of-way. Crew change takes place here only on...
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I had just started my hot camp this afternoon. I had to wait until 2:00am on my "CBCH" manifest train while here.
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Piggy train near Lincoln.
"UPS" trailers on flatbed railcars. The bulls love these trains!!!
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Ashland crew change.
North track takes you to Sioux City and to Willmar, Minnesota and on to Minneapolis. The...
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Rotary coupler on my coal train.
I looked like I was wearing eye make-up once I was done riding this coal train! (I had black rings...
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Lincoln EDM units. (See the Nebraska state capitol)?
These blue and white "EDM" units are normally only used to haul coal trains. (They're all AC powered, too).
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BNSF coal bucket near Lincoln.
Coal bucket coming from the south out of Texas power plants.
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My cold camp in Lincoln.
This was a bare and unused hobo camp! I almost bet I was the last one here the year before this photo was taken, too.
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Plug door boxcar in Kansas.
I hate these plug-door type boxcars because train crews are not supposed to let these boxcars stay...
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Milk does the body good!
North Platte River between Ashland and Omaha.
The North Platte River flowing next to my train, here. (I'm almost to the Missouri River at Pacific Junction, Iowa).
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Leaving "BNSF" Murray Yard in North KCMO.
This is Hiway 169 overpass in N. Kansas City, Missouri.
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Union Pacific Neff Yard in Kansas City, Missouri.
This is the start of the Union Pacific "Neff" Yards in KCMO. The "Knoche" Yard...
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Riding KCS over the Arkansas River in Oklahoma.
I waved at the little boy below with his dad. His dad didn't see me, but the boy did and he waved back to me and pointed up to me to his dad.
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My boxcar passing over the Arkansas River.
See my orange colored air bags inside my boxcar??? These are great to lay out and roll your sleeping bag out onto!
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