The last light of day on May 4, 2011, is quickly turning to night as a freight train is classified over East Hump at Union Pacific’s sprawling yard at North Platte, Nebraska.

Union Pacific EMD SD38-2 No. Y810 sits outside waiting for the next train to sort, while East Hump Foreman R.C. McKain catches up on “paperwork” on the lower level of East Hump tower at North ... (more)

An assortment of SD40N's and SD38-2's sit near the "East Hump" as UPY SD38-2 No. 840 takes two SD40N's over the hump after working a cut into the bowl at Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in N... (more)

A lone RCO-equipped SD40-2 backs into the massive hump yard to grab a cut of cars for final assembly into an outbound train.

The conductor of this remote CSX engine, steps off for a brief moment to throw the switch to line this Mother-Slug set CSXT No. 2436 and CSXT No. 1068 towards the hump instead of the Tilford Dies... (more)

A Selkirk hump set heads WB to the receiving yard to get another train at the increasingly busy Selkirk hump. On the right are new yard tracks being constructed by CSX to deal with the traffic bo... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: With the scuttlebutt regarding Ben's Bridge demise becoming more frequent, I stop by for maybe a last shot from a favorite location. However, it appears CS... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: A quick pause before continuing up the hump in Selkirk yard.

A yard slug tirelessly shoves another string of cars over the hump on a pleasant spring day.

Two of a kind: A duo of consecutively numbered and former L&N SD40-2's, both built in 1974, work the Tilford hump on a beautiful springlike day in Atlanta.

WESTERN STRANGER. UTAH 3000 sits snow covered in the CSX Selkirk service area as a slug set shoves another cut over the Selkirk hump. The Utah unit is in transit to Florida and The Bay Line.

Rio Grande's one and only 'chop nose' SD9 works at the hump yard in Grand Junction on June 14, 1981.

A cut of pristine Fruit Growers Express reefers is sorted out on the hump at Potomac Yard. It appears they were in the consist of a hot TOFC train. FGEX had their corporate HQ in Alexandria at t... (more)

Q620 has just arrived into Selkirk Yard and the power is cutting off from it's train to run the balloon and park. At the same time two tracks over, Y122 works the hump with a Q702 which had just a... (more)

Chessie System light power rolls by the hump at Potomac Yard just before sunset.